Parenting Tweens
The Girl Next Door Podcast
Kelsey Wharton
4.8 • 714 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Today we're talking about our experience parenting tweens so far, those delightfully empathetic and inconsistently responsible 9-12 year olds of ours. We revisit our tween selves before sharing what's wonderful and challenging about living with our tweens. Then we share advice for other parents of tweens and the best resources we've found for parenting tweens. Fellow tween parents, you're doing great!
Mentioned on the show:
First Phone: A Child's Guide to Digital Responsibility, Safety, and Etiquette
Newsletter with the tween throwing up analogy (also referenced in Cup of Jo post linked below)
How To Talk So Teens Will Listen, And Listen So Teens Will Talk
Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions Into Adulthood
Parenting Without Power Struggles
Cup of Jo Posts on tweens/teenagers: A List of Things to NOT Do If You Have Preteens; What Has Surprised Me About Preteens; 11 Reader Comments on Parenting Teenagers
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Lululemon crossbody bag / and the crossbody bag that Kelsey has
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The Girl Next Door Podcast. I'm Erica and I'm Kelsey. We're two former next door neighbors and good friends who love a good chat and a good laugh. We're inviting you to come on in, have a drink, and stay a while. Hey, friend. Hey friend. Today's episode has been highly requested and truth be told, we need to do our own processing |
| 0:22.7 | and ask our own questions and cries for help around this topic. |
| 0:26.6 | And that is tweens. |
| 0:28.6 | Yes. |
| 0:29.2 | Parenting that age from about nine to 12 and the special challenges and delights that it brings. |
| 0:36.1 | I have two firmly in this stage, I would say now, |
| 0:39.2 | and you have one with another well on his way with his foot in the door there. So we have lots to |
| 0:44.1 | discuss. Before we jump into that, though, what is happening for you around the neighborhood? |
| 0:49.1 | Okay, I want to talk about giving myself permission to let go of a couple of things right now. Okay. You know I love |
| 0:56.3 | this. I know. You know I love this. I know. And I want to declare it publicly to really make sure that I do it. |
| 1:02.9 | And do give myself this permission. And one of them was a goal that I had for myself this year. |
| 1:07.4 | And so the two things are one, the bigger goal that I had for myself this year of a |
| 1:12.2 | bigger writing project that I shared a little bit more detail with you. I wasn't quite ready to |
| 1:17.0 | share more details with the wider world. So letting go of that bigger project and then also being |
| 1:24.5 | okay with not writing as much on my blog right now. |
| 1:27.6 | Okay. |
| 1:27.9 | Just realizing it's not the season or what? |
| 1:30.0 | Oh my gosh. |
| 1:30.5 | This year, I'm just so surprised at how this year has already been busier and just |
| 1:35.9 | we've taken so many more detours from our routine than just seems normal. |
| 1:40.3 | That always happens in the course of the year. |
| 1:42.5 | But I feel like January started so well. |
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