Teenage Boys and Belonging- Episode #761
Zen Pop
Todd and Cathy Adams
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Todd and Cathy discussed the importance of developing talents and the challenges of pursuing one’s passions. They also emphasized the need for understanding and empathizing when teenage boys lash out or question their belonging (they share an audioclip from Dr. John Duffy). They shared the difference between empathy and sympathy, and why it’s important to be really clear about what you need and ask for it. They ended the show by discussing the victim, villain, hero triangle and what it really means when you are ‘hero-ing’ someone.
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(00:03:44) Passion vs Talent
(00:27:14) Do our boys feel lost?
(00:29:35) Join Team Zen
(00:42:02) Empathy vs sympathy
(00:48:25) Not letting it sit *
(00:59:26) Jeremy Kraft from Avid Painting and Remodeling 630-956-1800
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Do do do do do do do. |
| 0:05.5 | Here we go. |
| 0:06.1 | My name's Todd. |
| 0:06.6 | This is Kathy. |
| 0:07.2 | Welcome back to another episode of Zen Parenting Radio. |
| 0:10.2 | This is podcast number 761. |
| 0:13.3 | Why listen to Zen Parenting Radio? |
| 0:14.9 | Because you'll feel outstanding. |
| 0:16.5 | And I always remember our motto, which is the best predictor of a child's way of being is a parent self-understanding |
| 0:22.5 | i gotta turn off john duffy's microphone it's annoying is that what it is i'm like what is that sound |
| 0:27.5 | gosh it's like white it's like white noise gone i blame john duffy well that's been on he was here on |
| 0:34.5 | friday it's been a few days and as a matter of, we're going to talk a little bit about the Zen talk |
| 0:38.7 | that we did. We do this, we have this thing called Team Zen. And every now and again, we invite some of our |
| 0:45.8 | friends and speakers and thought leaders and experts. And last week, we had John Duffy in studio, which was fun. |
| 0:52.9 | And there was a specific question that I thought he did a really good job answering. |
| 0:57.0 | And I wanted to share it with our bigger audience. |
| 1:01.3 | It was about an hour and 15 minute conversation. |
| 1:03.9 | We might play two minutes of John. |
| 1:05.3 | But it's just more of a sneak preview that if you like what you hear from John, |
| 1:10.6 | jump in on Team Zen. Yeah, if you if you like what you hear from john um jump in on team zen |
| 1:12.6 | if you're in if you're on team zen you can listen to it um and that's not the only thing |
| 1:18.3 | we've got how many a hundred and seventy four uh something like that um other podcasts there |
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