Raising Teenagers

Tell Me More with Nicole Walters

Dear Media

Society & Culture, Business

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Y’all middle school is middle schooling this week and I’ve got a story to break down for you. All in all I’m calling this a win friend and I’m excited to share what I’m learning with you!

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0:37.0	Hey friend, it's Nicole, host of the Nicole Walters podcast.
0:45.0	Here's where we laugh, we cry, and we grant ourselves grace as we do life together.
0:50.0	Let's get started. So I'm just going to jump into it because this one is I wouldn't say tough for me to talk about but it's come up a lot we've chatted about it in
1:13.2	the dams as you know I've got a 12 year old at home and middle school is a tough
1:19.2	tough season I almost feel like it's getting tougher, particularly if you have little girls in this day and age, and I say that to almost date myself.
1:27.0	Do you remember when if you were getting bullied, picked on, had a thing with a kid, or you're afraid of a test, you would just stay home.
1:35.0	You'd be like, mom, I need to stay home, I don't feel good, because the problems that you had or the thing that you were nervous about facing existed someplace elseplace else well that's changed a lot I
1:46.8	know a lot of you are nodding your heads right now like yes girl the drama
1:50.5	from school comes home with these kids and it comes home through social media, their cell phones.
1:56.0	I mean it is really a different dynamic to raising kids when we were growing up, you know, from our parental experience and I count
2:05.1	myself lucky, you know, as a younger mom to my girls, meaning, you know, I'm not even
2:12.1	40 yet with a 24-year year old, you know, and that kind of keeps me hip.
2:16.5	Even though I use words like hip, you know, it keeps me cool because I am still very much on the touch point of you know social media and like the music
2:25.3	they're listening to and shows they watch so a lot of things don't slip by me even
2:29.2	though I'm still trying to figure out what the heck Riz really means you know and and all these things these kids are saying
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