Parents Just Don’t Understand - A Guidebook For Today’s Teenager

The Virtual Couch

Tony Overbay LMFT

Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

5 • 643 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Today Tony shares some mind-blowing data about “kids these days” gathered from a couple of consulting jobs with extremely large companies who are losing young, new hires at an alarming rate compared to just a few years ago. He talks about how attachment and abandonment issues from early childhood manifest in our teenage years, and then he gives several tips on how to connect, and communicate better with your teenagers. Tony references episode 240, “I See You 2021” https://www.tonyoverbay.com/i-see-you-2021-are-you-ready-to-thrive-or-simply-survive/ and episode 237, “Here’s How You TRULY Connect” (using the 4 Pillars of a Connected Conversation) https://www.tonyoverbay.com/heres-how-you-truly-connect-aka-the-consequences-of-crummy-communication/ and if you would like to see Parks and Rec’s Leslie Knope rap the entire DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince song mentioned in the intro to this episode, you can find that here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGxzd8kbQZ8- Sign up at http://tonyoverbay.com (http://tonyoverbay.com) to learn more about Tony’s upcoming “Magnetic Marriage” program! - This episode of The Virtual Couch is sponsored by http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch (http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch) With the continuing “sheltering” rules that are spreading across the country PLEASE do not think that you can’t continue or begin therapy now. http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch (http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch) can put you quickly in touch with licensed mental health professionals who can meet through text, email, or videoconference often as soon as 24-48 hours. And if you use the link http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch (http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch) you will receive 10% off your first month of services. Please make your own mental health a priority, http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch (http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch)offers affordable counseling, and they even have sliding scale options if your budget is tight. - Please subscribe to The Virtual Couch YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/TheVirtualCouchPodcast/ (https://www.youtube.com/c/TheVirtualCouchPodcast/) and sign up at http://tonyoverbay.com (http://tonyoverbay.com) to learn more about Tony’s upcoming “Magnetic Marriage” program! - Tony's FREE parenting course, “Tips For Parenting Positively Even In the Not So Positive Times” is available NOW. Just go to https://www.tonyoverbay.com/courses-2/ (https://www.tonyoverbay.com/courses-2/)and sign up today. This course will help you understand why it can be so difficult to communicate with and understand your children. You’ll learn how to keep your buttons hidden, how to genuinely give praise that will truly build inner wealth in your child, teen, or even in your adult children, and you’ll learn how to move from being “the punisher” to being someone your children will want to go to when they need help. - Tony's new best-selling book "He's a Porn Addict...Now What? An Expert and a Former Addict Answer Your Questions" is now available on Kindle. https://amzn.to/38mauBo (https://amzn.to/38mauBo)

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0:00.0	So one of my favorite phrases to use to sort of catch my wife up with why I'm about to spew out some sort of obscure references, hey, let me take you on my train of thought.
0:09.4	And in this particular instance, we are going to jump on board a few stops back.
0:14.3	So if you're like what I can only assume are millions of people around the globe, if not more, the end of 2020 not only brought a sort of welcome relief to an overall
0:23.1	pretty crummy year with the hopes and dreams that 2021 will be more of a return to
0:28.7	normalcy.
0:29.6	But then the ball dropping on Times Square also signaled another significant for many
0:35.2	various sad event.
0:36.8	That was that the TV show, The Office, had been taken off of Netflix.
0:41.3	And I swear I saw more social media posts about this than I did
0:45.3	vaccines and politics and resolutions combined.
0:49.3	As the end of the year grew closer and closer,
0:51.3	my wife and I have only recently started rewatching the office,
0:53.3	and I think more or less is something to have on while decorating for Christmas or wrapping presents
0:58.1	or playing a ton of board games, which we're finding ourselves more apt to do the older we get.
1:03.0	And the more we realize that board games maybe offer us an easy avenue to have our older kids hang out with us.
1:08.3	So on one particular occasion when one of my daughters was
1:10.8	lamenting that the upcoming loss of the office was imminent, I said, well, where's it going?
1:16.5	Do we need to buy DVDs or something like that? And her first response, at least to me, was almost an
1:21.9	audible gas with disdain. DVDs, okay, old man, to which I wanted to say, well, I can't find the old
1:27.4	VCR because
1:28.2	I'm guessing that VHS cassettes would actually be a little bit cheaper. And side note, did you know
1:32.3	that it's almost impossible to find a VHS player these days? And if you share this fun fact
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