How To Talk Teen #1

“How do you communicate with teenagers?”

“How am I going to survive my kids’ teenage years?”

“How am I going to keep a relationship going with my kids once they hit their teens?”

For some reason, these questions have been coming at me lately, and having survived four lots of teenage years (five, including my own!), I’ve got a fair bit of experience at this.

I’m not for one minute suggesting I’m an expert, mind, I just have opinions 😁 and approximately 25 years’ worth of trying to stay sane while my kids’ sanities were completely AWOL.

To give an interesting perspective on this, I thought I’d have a few conversations with my kids on how they survived their teenage years, how the world (and my parenting in particular) looked from their perspective, and what they thought of the whole teenage years experience.

In this episode, I talk to Ryan about how I pulled teenagers out of their avid and dramatic introspection (“the whole world is against me, no one understands me!”) and into understanding their place in the world, their impact on others and what’s really going on is just inside their own heads.

And funnily enough, yes, other people actually do understand them because anyone older than them has been through the whole teenage thing themselves.

Let me know if you enjoy it and what your thoughts are on the topic, and don’t forget to subscribe! 😘💖

PS Photo by the amazing & talented Kira O’Connor , who also survived her teenage years in my house! 😘

Click here to listen...

Listen And SUBSCRIBE On Your Favourite Player

Find Out More About Ryan And What He's Up To Here...

https://www.facebook.com/someonenewtheatre

https://www.facebook.com/ryanjakeoconnor

More fabulous podcasts and articles...

April 29, 2020

At the start of the year, if I’d been thinking about a word that was going to describe my experience in the coming year……and to be honest, I didn’t do that because I didn’t follow

March 25, 2020

I did a degree in construction back in the 80’s. I was one of 6 women in the UK doing my job when I graduated, I worked on building sites for 5 years and I

March 18, 2020

I’ve never really experienced sex discrimination or gender inequality. At least, I didn’t think I had. Till I read a book and started doing some research and then I realised just how much of a

March 11, 2020

I’m going to talk today about the big topic of motherhood. I’ve been online for about three and a half or so years now. And I generally avoid the topic of motherhood, and particularly the

March 4, 2020

I had no idea that a forceps delivery would have any impact on me. I was certainly upset by the bruises on my baby’s face but I honestly thought that an “assisted” birth was way

February 26, 2020

When I started this podcast, one of the things I wanted to do was chat to my friends so they could share their stories. I love listening to people’s stories and I’m always left feeling

February 19, 2020

Podcast Episode 9 It’s well known that insomnia can lead to depression and anxiety and vice versa, but there are a few things about sleep that I’ve discovered recently, along with the impact that social

February 12, 2020

I got asked an interesting question: would I expect to have to parent my partner? I have strong opinions about this aspect of Australian culture that’s always been a source of irritation for me. Plus

February 8, 2020

Podcast Episode 7 Persistent and chronic pain is something that a large number of women live with from a variety of causes: migraines, fibromyalgia (Lady Gaga is a sufferer), cancer, arthritis, or, in my case,

February 5, 2020

People think I’m busy, that I’ve always got a tonne of things on and I can’t sit still for five minutes, but I’m a complete novice compared to my friend, Stephanie. After moving to Australia