Risky Behaviour in Teens with Phinnah Chichi

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🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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As our American friends enjoy Cyber Monday we are bringing you a repeat of an infortive interivew with Phinnah Chichi. Adolescence naturally comes with risk-taking, but for parents, it can feel like navigating a whole new world. Phinnah is a parenting consultant and coach who supports parents of tweens and teens as they move through these years together, strengthening their relationship instead of drifting apart. She’s the author of The Parenting Teens Navigation System: Journeying Successfully Through the Changes and Challenges of Parenting Teenagers and provides courses, workshops, and community spaces for both parents and young people. For more resources, follow Phinnah at @parentingteenssolutions.

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0:00.0	The important thing is for us to understand our triggers. Yes, there are things that are going to get upset.
0:05.3	Understand our triggers and then decide what to do with it. The reason why our emotional regulation is so vital is because we are teaching them.
0:13.7	We are modeling to them how to regulate their own emotion.
0:18.0	Drop it like a heart. Drop like a tie. Drop like a tie. Natalie, what do I do?
0:24.2	I hope it's giddy, giddy.
0:26.9	Okay, we are so excited to have Fina Chi Chi as a parenting consultant and coach who
0:31.9	specializes in supporting parents of tweens and teens.
0:34.9	That's us as they guide their teens through the challenges and changes
0:39.3	of the adolescent ears in ways where they both grow together to avoid the break in relationships
0:45.4	that are all too common. That is exactly the time. And right now it is that feeling where we no
0:51.1	longer have our babies anymore and there's definitely a breakdown and we need
0:55.5	help you need help growing together yes that's the key that's the key i guess the the um no thank you
1:04.4	i guess the question for a lot of parents is is it have they always been reactive like our emotional regulation is this something that we start
1:15.7	with at a young age or does it amp up when they're teenagers um and we've we've lost the plot because
1:22.8	the behaviors are bigger and our reactions can't get any bigger because when they spilled milk, we lost our minds and now they're, you know, sneaking behind our back. So what is that?
1:33.9	So there are two things. So the reactions have always been there because what we've,
1:38.5	we learned those reactions from when we were growing up and from all the adults that we had
1:42.7	when we were growing up. But it was kind of suppressed because we didn't need to use it all the time because
1:48.2	as children when they were much younger, they're kind of going with the flow.
1:52.1	Yes, they may have some rough patches, spill milk, do their homework, all those little,
1:57.8	little things in comparison to now that they're teenagers. Now, in the second part
2:02.9	is the teenage brain. The teenage brain is doing a lot more in the teenage years and parents are
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