Ep. 98: Parenting Teens and Tweens Without The Drama

The Hello Someday Podcast For Sober Curious Women · Feb 24, 2022 · 1h 14m

Parenting teens and tweens can be a messy time that can bring joy, satisfaction, frustration, worry and a desire to drink to tune it all out.

It’s a time when kids are moving out of childhood and into adulthood, but they’re not there yet.

Kids in adolescence experience intense emotions, are wired for novelty seeking and start to prioritize peer relationships over parental ones.

Because of all of this parenting teenagers can be a personal growth and development workshop for the adults in their lives.

The behavior of teenagers can trigger strong emotional reactions in adults, often related more…