What Teens Really Need From Their Moms

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🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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0:27.8	So I found this article.
0:31.0	Ah, three things teens want and need from their moms.
0:41.0	And this was written up.
0:44.0	One of my favorite places to read articles is iMOM.com.
0:48.9	You really have to check them out.
0:52.7	Everybody always comments that raising teens is terrible and we don't know how to do it
0:56.9	right and they just wear you down and stuff like that. Well, a lot of it sort of depends upon
1:04.4	how peaceful and joyous the home is while they're growing up with respect to other kids, animals, the marriage,
1:14.8	all of these things go into some extent what a teenager will be. So before you fertilize the egg and start human life, you really need to look at the quality
1:37.1	of your everyday life. Is it joyous? Is it peaceful? When there is an issue, can it be dealt with
1:42.8	without insanity? Animals. Too many chaos, not clean,
1:52.0	not trained. I mean, I train my dogs. They can do everything with hand signals. I don't even want to have to speak up.
2:02.0	I may call a name out just to get the attention, head swivels.
2:08.9	Even that you have to train.
2:11.0	But head swivels, and then the rest of it I do with fingers.
2:15.0	Sit down.
2:16.3	Twirl, twirl, come here. All of it. Stay. That's a whole hand. Stay.
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