If you're raising a teenager, it's pretty likely you've gotten mad.

At some point in time, all of us have done that.

If you're feeling regret over how you responded or reacted to your teen's behavior or maybe a word

they said.

Lean in, we're going to be discussing how you can help make things right.

I'm John Fuller along with our vice president of parenting

Danny Werta and Danny you're a counselor you work with kids and families all the

time how have you seen parents trying to kind of repair either effectively or

ineffectively the damage that they feel like they've done by overreacting.

We've had several moments in the counseling office of this very thing.

Parents usually are very reactive to moments of intense or

intentional disrespect or intentional disobedience where they have taken it personally and so there's a reactive

moment to that rather than there's a teenager here or a child that is

struggling with their own will and their

own desires.

There's a wrestling match in that and it's not personal to me and I still remember this one

dad and his son both very volatile

angry individuals had a very passionate personality and in disagreement they would get in

physical altercations at times where sometimes it would go out into the front yard.

They tackle each other and punch each other.

There was intense reactiveness from the dad.

If there was any moment of disrespect, all of a sudden there's yelling there's posturing and there was

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