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Edit Your Life | Simplify + Declutter Your Home, Time, and Mental Space

Raising Teenagers (with Mary Dell Harrington)

Edit Your Life | Simplify + Declutter Your Home, Time, and Mental Space

Edit Your Life Show

Society & Culture

4.6530 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Parents often think that once kids become teenagers and are more independent, they need you less, but they actually need you more than ever. Christine chats with Mary Dell Harrington about navigating teen reticence, high school stress, mistakes, different paths, and more. RELATED EPISODES (visit the show notes for additional links): College Application Reality Check Identifying Your Values Modeling Imperfection Simple + Compassionate Parenting Tactics (with Dr. Tina Payne Bryson) Raising A Screen-Smart Kid (with Juliana Miner) Untangling Overparenting (with Jessica Lahey) Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that shares practical ideas for decluttering your home, schedule, and mental space without getting bogged down by perfection. Visit edityourlifeshow.com for show notes and to connect with host Christine Koh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Edit Your Life, a podcast to help you edit the unnecessary from your life so you have more room to enjoy the awesome.

0:12.5

Through episodes with me, your host, Christine Coe, and a range of super smart, compassionate and thoughtful guests,

0:18.8

you will come away with big picture insights and practical ways to declutter your home, schedule, and thoughtful guests, you will come away with big picture insights and

0:21.6

practical ways to declutter your home, schedule, and mental space without getting bogged down by perfection.

0:27.4

I have always believed that small moments and actions matter tremendously. My goal is to help you

0:33.1

find agency and space in your life through doable baby steps that will leave you feeling accomplished

0:38.1

instead of overwhelmed.

0:40.9

Hello, friends.

0:42.1

I am really excited to bring an important conversation out from behind the Locked Archive.

0:48.2

This conversation with Mary Dell Harrington on Raising Teens is really a must listen.

0:58.0

Mary Dell is the co-founder of the juggernaut community grown and flown, a community for parents and caregivers of teens. And she's also co-author of a

1:04.3

book of the same title. Now, I've had it on my list to bring this episode out of the archives for

1:10.0

some time, but it definitely

1:12.0

bubbled to the top of my list based on a few recent things. The first was a listener letter

1:17.3

detailing some of the ways in which Edit Your Life interviews have impacted their experience.

1:23.4

And they wrote in response to the original broadcast of this interview with Mary Del

1:28.1

Harrington, the book, Grown and Flown was a huge game changer for me.

1:32.5

I purchased the book and have since recommended it to all of my friends.

1:36.1

My oldest is a junior in high school, and this book has helped me in so many ways.

1:40.2

What an amazing resource.

1:42.4

I also thought the timing was good because we are now in the season of high school graduations.

1:48.1

People have made many announcements about their next steps.

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