Real Talk About High School (With A Real Teen!): Voices 71 With Meagan’s Son Will
The Mom Hour
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🗓️ 1 April 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
We know what it’s like to be a teen because we were all teenagers once, right? Well, not quite. In this month’s Voices episode, Meagan is joined by her son, affectionately nicknamed “Good Ol’ Reliable William” to discuss life as a teenager. As a 18-year-old wrapping up his senior year, Will walks us through the nuances of 9th-12th grade, shares some high school memories, and reveals what he’s looking forward to. He also schools us all on what adults don’t get about being a teen . . . and Meagan explains what balancing a checkbook is. Together, we bond over the universality of struggling to appreciate where you are in the moment. Listen ’til the end to hear Will’s message for moms who are (and will be!) raising teenagers. Enjoy!
LINKS MENTIONED:
- Listen to the other episodes in this series about Ages 2-8 and Ages 9-17
- Meagan’s IG essay on momming young adults
- Read Will’s blog
- Check out this related content: Managing Kids’ Extracurriculars, Winning, Losing, and That Moment When Your Kid Shows You The Door (an essay Meagan wrote about Will), and Raising Lifelong Learners
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm Megan. We're two moms with eight kids between us from |
| 0:05.2 | little to grown. We're in different areas of the country and in different stages |
| 0:09.0 | of life, but we both know that motherhood's a lot easier when real moms share |
| 0:12.7 | tips and encouragement. And remind you that it's really all gonna be okay. We're |
| 0:16.6 | not experts. We're parents who've been there. We're not perfect. We're real. |
| 0:19.9 | Welcome to the mom hour. |
| 0:22.5 | Hi everyone and welcome to the mom hour. I'm Megan Francis and we have a very |
| 0:28.0 | special voices episode for you today. So usually on these once a month interview |
| 0:33.4 | episodes, we would talk to a mom from our community or a parenting expert. But |
| 0:38.3 | today I'm talking with my son, William, who you may have heard me refer to on |
| 0:42.4 | the show as good, old, reliable will. Will's my middle child and an 18 year old |
| 0:47.4 | high school senior. And he's here to give us a glimpse of what life is a teenager |
| 0:50.7 | is really like. We discussed his experience in ninth through 12th grades. What |
| 0:55.5 | parents and teachers don't always understand about teenagers. And what he's |
| 0:59.0 | looking for is who after high school. So the pandemic started smack dab in the |
| 1:03.0 | middle of Will's high school experience. So we also spend a little time unpacking |
| 1:06.9 | the effects of COVID. You know, in the last couple of Tuesday episodes, we talked |
| 1:10.8 | about raising kids year by year. And this dovetails perfectly with those |
| 1:14.2 | conversations. So whether you have a teenager now or looking forward to that |
| 1:18.3 | stage down the line or maybe you're a little bit fearful of it, I think you're |
| 1:21.9 | gonna find this conversation really interesting. I don't always agree with |
| 1:25.4 | Will on everything, especially some of his thoughts about education. But even |
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