This episode of PDACAST is brought to you by the Center for Family Safety and Healing at Nationwide Children's Hospital. Hello, everyone, and welcome once again to Pediacast.

We are a pediatric podcast for moms and dads.

This is Dr. Mike coming to you from the campus of nationwide children's hospital.

It's episode 582.

We're calling this one talking to teens about healthy relationships.

I want to welcome all of you to the program.

As you know, relationships are a very big part of growing up, and for teenagers, navigating friendships, dating, and communications can feel overwhelming at times. As parents and caregivers,

we play an important role in helping our teens build healthy,

respectful connections. And that's sometimes difficult, especially when maybe we have issues

ourselves with our relationships and with communication. And so not only are we trying to

help our kids build those skills, we're working on those skills and modeling those

skills for our kids. And so it's really important. And communication and interpersonal

relationships and building that, even in adulthood, is really important. So today we're going

to explore how to open up lines of communication and keep them open with our children

and our teenagers. We'll also consider signs of healthy and unhealthy relationships and best

ways to offer support for teens as they develop all of these important life skills.

Of course, in our usual Pediacast fashion, we have a terrific guest joining us this week,

Caitlin Tully.

She is a community educator and prevention manager for the Center for Family Safety and Healing at Nationwide Children's Hospital.

She will be with us shortly.

We're going to talk about open lines of communication, setting boundaries, red flags, green flags, digital rights, lots coming up in this conversation

that's going to be important, especially for parents with preteens and teenagers at home.

...