Welcome to Live Well Anyway. I'm your host, Mackenzie Kappa, formerly of cultivating the

lovely. And on this podcast, we focus on wellness, beauty, style, planning, and life. Basically,

life is messy, and here we learn to

live well anyway. So join me on this journey as we figure it out together. And just to get us

started, I'll go first. Today is a really fun conversation with my good friend Katie Deckett,

who you know I love to have on the show. And we are talking all about connecting with our kids through

media. So we are actually going to be having some really fun episodes coming up throughout the

month of April. Both of us have boys who have 15th birthdays in April. And so we thought it would

be really fun to start having some conversations about teenage motherhood. Now, I know not all of you have

teenagers and not all of you have teenage boys, but a lot of you have kids that are coming up into

those years and we want to dissuade some of your fears about that. We are by no means giving the

prescription for how you can, you know, raise great teens. We just kind of want to

share from our experience how we are doing things and what things have worked and what things haven't

and both from a married mom perspective and a single mom perspective and how we've developed

relationships with our boys and we try to foster those. And specifically today, it doesn't even necessarily

have to be about teens, but we are talking about connecting with our kids through media and allowing

media things, whether it's podcasts or TV shows or movies, to really take those relationships

deeper and spark bigger conversations with them and allowing it to be a place where we can meet

our kids and really go deeper with them and show them that we care about their interests.

And guess what?

Sometimes their interests can unexpectedly become your own as well.

And so we are going to dive into that in this episode.

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