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. And today, Katie Duckett and I are actually going first together. We are talking all about

mothering teen boys. You're going to hear a lot of teen boy content this month

because we happen to have boys who are about to turn 15 and they are best

friends and so we thought it would be really fun to kind of discuss what our

relationships are like with them because I think we've done a decent job not

perfect by any means but we've had a lot of fun mothering these boys of ours and we've learned a decent job, not perfect by any means, but we've had a lot of fun mothering these

boys of ours. And we've learned a thing or two along the way. And so we just wanted to kind of

share our own experiences and what we've done with them and how we've connected. We kind of started

this a couple of weeks ago when we did our whole discussion about connecting with our kids over media.

But today we kick it up a notch. We talk a lot more about our personal relationships with our

boys on a grander scheme and how we've gotten to where we are. And then next week we are actually

going to be talking about how we are celebrating our teens well because that has to look different than it did in their younger years. And so how we are celebrating our teens well, because that has to look different than it did

in their younger years. And so how we have learned to acknowledge the things about who they are

and who they're becoming, especially in a year where it's been really hard to kind of celebrate

people in the ways that we normally would. And so we discuss all of that in next week's

episode. But don't worry,

even if you don't have a teen right now, I think that this is hopefully a helpful episode for

those of you who have younger kids, who will eventually have teens someday. And we will be hitting

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