Podcasts by Parenting Your Teens
Weekly dear abby format with expert tips to parent teenagers
Further podcasts by Christopher Taylor MFT
Podcast on the topic Gesundheit und Fitness
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Parenting Your Teens Podcast: Episode 10 from 2020-03-14T05:57:08
In this episode I talk about why your teen has negative behaviors. So often parents focus on what the behavior is, but by understanding why the behavior happens in the first place, then we you can...
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Parenting Your Teens Podcast: Episode 9 from 2020-03-03T16:50:23
In this episode I teach the exact incentive plan that I use in my private practice to motivate teens to do their chores and homework without nagging, arguing or using consequences. Its a game chan...
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Parenting Your Teens Podcast: Episode 8 from 2020-02-26T18:01:16
In this episode we discuss how to structure the home environment to ensure that teens are able to get there work done and feel good about their successes.
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3 Things Parents Must Know About School Shootings from 2019-12-18T05:06:36
From 1970 to 2019 there have been over 1,300 school shootings. 18 percent of those have occurred since 2012. As parents, and as a community we must develop awareness of the real issues and interv...
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Parenting Your Teens Podcast: Episode 7 from 2019-04-15T00:15:24
In this episode we talk about why teens respond to basic requests with such an angry and dismissive attitude. Tips for how parents can turn it around and get their kids to show respect.
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Parenting Your Teens Podcast: Episode 6 from 2019-04-07T17:04
In this episode I explore the epidemic that is teen vaping. I talk about what parents need to know about vaping and what they should do in response.
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Parenting Your Teens Podcast: Episode 5 from 2019-03-28T04:16:50
In this episode I help parents to understand the primary forces that motivate human behavior. I teach parents how to have dialogue with their teens rather than slam them with consequences. I prov...
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Parenting Your Teens Podcast: Episode 4 from 2019-03-23T01:54:27
In this episode I teach parents how to help their teens wok through social anxiety. You will learn what the root cause of social anxiety is and what to do to end the cycle of negative self-talk.
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Parenting Your Teens Podcast: Episode 3 from 2019-03-17T04:20:54
In this episode I teach parents how to get your teen to open up to you. The focus is on using a strategy that not only engages teens initially, but also builds in value so they will seek parents o...
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Parenting Your Teens Podcast: Episode 2 from 2019-03-11T17:09
In this episode I answer the question of what to do when your teen suffers from low self-esteem. We cover the developmental reasons why low self-esteem develops and what you, as a parent, can do t...
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Parenting Your Teens Podcast: Episode 1 from 2019-03-03T21:24:07
This episode introduces the Parenting Your Teens Podcast. The parenting your teens podcast is a weekly show focused on providing parents expert tips in dealing with common issues parents face with...
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3 Ways to Effectively Manage Your Teen's School Problems from 2019-01-14T22:36:40
How many times have we heard or used the cliché, “what are you going to do, work at McDonalds?” Parents try to instill the love for education in their teens to give them a better future. For man...
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5 Amazing Signs You're Doing It Right with Your Teen from 2019-01-14T22:36:20
With everything there is in this world to make you question whether or not you are being a good parent it can be hard to think of yourself as competent. We live in a world of parent shaming and ...
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3 Ways To Motivate Your Teen Towards Success from 2018-12-18T17:46
Motivation is based on what we attach value to. The old way of trying to ensure teens follow through was to slam them with a consequence. Well the new generation of teens are smarter and don’t ...
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5 Critical Strategies For Managing Blended Families from 2018-06-12T17:24
In today's society of frequent divorce and remarriage the term blended family has become a norm. While "The Brady Bunch" highlighted the reality of this arrangement back in the 60's, it is more ...
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3 Ways To Help Your Teen Cope With Divorce from 2018-06-05T17:12
With the divorce rate in America passing 50 percent, and with the stress of children cited as one of the leading reasons for divorce, it is important to know the best way to support your teen thr...
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How To Move From Defiance To Compliance In Your Teen from 2018-04-24T17:28
Being a teenager means to suffer from the disease of defiance. For some, it is merely refusing to do the dishes or taking out the trash. For others, it is refusing to do their homework or chron...
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How To Stop Your Teen Before The First Drug Experience from 2018-04-17T17:20
As parents we are tasked to protect our children from mistakes that can have repercussions that last their lifetime. We understand that most poor choices can offer excellent learning opportuniti...
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3 Major Communication Strategies On How To Talk To Your Teen from 2018-04-10T17:13
As any parent of a teen will tell you, they are not very forthcoming with information. Ask any teenager how their day went, and many times you will hear “fine,” “good,” or simply “ok” as a respo...
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5 Teen Warning Signs Of Serious Depression from 2018-04-03T17:49
Depression is the most serious mental health issue facing our teens today. This year 2.8 million American teens will experience depression. Of those 2.8 million, 30 percent will also develop a ...
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Protecting Your Teen From Digital Addictions from 2018-03-27T17:54
It is no secret that we live in the digital age. Since the introduction of the internet over 2 decades ago, to the creation of the smartphone a decade later, we have been moving at lighting spee...
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5 Major Tips To Survive The Prom from 2018-03-20T17:33
Prom night is the end of childhood for your teen, the beginning of adulthood, and the true test of responsibility and behaving. Teens spend almost the entire year planning, shopping, and talking ...
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Managing The Stress Of Homework, Midterms&Finals from 2018-03-13T17:23
Stress from homework, midterms, and finals happens with kids and teens of all ages, and it can be cause stress on the whole family as well. To better manage the stress and feelings that occur dur...
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How To Avoid Arguing: Teaching Teens R-E-S-P-E-C-T from 2018-03-06T18:17
As your child grows up, it is likely you will disagree on various things. It will start out as simple arguments, such as putting their coat on or putting toys away. As they reach adolescence, the...
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How To Respond To Your Teens Music: Art Of Self-Expression from 2018-02-27T18:06
Music can take many forms, but at its root in every form it relays various emotions. Sounds and lyrics portray and talk about love, heartbreak, friendship, tragedy, happiness, sadness, and loneli...
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Praise As A Constructive Tool: Ending The Negative Communication Cycle from 2018-02-20T18:10
As a parent, life is full of balancing on many fine lines of too little and too much. Communication can undoubtedly go into that category of “hard to balance.” Communication is a prime tool in ra...
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Straight Talk With Your Teen About Dating&Sex from 2018-02-13T17:58
The topic that most parents dread as their child nears the teenage years: dating and sexuality. But if you are dreading it, think about how your teen feels? You were their age once. Except now th...
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5 Warning Signs Your Teen Is Being Bullied from 2018-02-06T18:11
Many parents and adults know bullying is a common issue among kids, especially in their teenage years, but most do not know just how common or the effects it can cause short and long term. More t...
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3 Ways To Connect With Your Teen from 2018-01-30T18:00
If you are a parent who struggles to connect with your teen then this article is for you. Your teen is in need of your assistance to overcome the difficulties they come across in day-to-day life....
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The Infamous Middle School Peer Pressure: Real Strategies from 2018-01-23T19:59:10
A recent client of mine was severely bullied for having an iPhone older than a 5. He asked his mom to change schools. Another client was sent home in tears because he liked theatre more than sp...
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How A 15-Year-Old Turned From Being The School Rebel To The Class Valedictorian from 2017-12-11T20:03:19
You see, when Timmy’s parents first called me for a consultation they where distraught. They had found Timmy’s phone lying on the counter while he was at soccer practice, and they decided to tak...
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5 Reasons Why You Should Learn How To Parent Your Teens From The Experts from 2017-12-11T19:38:18
I want my teenager to take school seriously. I want to be done with all the back and forth arguing that happens every time I ask my teen to do anything around the house. If only my teen was res...
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Negotiation Skills As An Effective Teen Parenting Strategy from 2017-09-13T03:35:12
Does this sound familiar? “Because I am your parent and I said so!” The next statement would sound like this, “well I am still not doing it and you can’t make me.” Ultimately, this exchange en...
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Setting The Bar With Your Challenging Teen from 2017-09-05T16:56
In sports it is said that one rises to level of his competition. I suppose it could be conversely stated that one can also lower them to inferior completion. Overall I think this means that whe...
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Navigating Your Teen's Senior Year To Success from 2017-08-29T16:44
The year it all comes together. Yes, being a senior in high school is a time for reflection, a time to prepare for the next chapter, a time to say goodbye, and a time to celebrate. Wait a minut...
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Teen Cutting: Coping With Self-Harm from 2017-08-22T17:33
Teen depression is not a phase. The risk of suicide among depressed teens is scary. Recent statistics show that more teenagers and young adults die from suicide than from cancer, heart disease,...
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Understanding And Managing Teen Identity Formation from 2017-08-15T16:43
Noted psychologist, Erick Erikson, described the period of adolescence in psycho-social terms of ego-identity vs. role confusion. I think all of us can relate to this explanation if we remember ...
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ADHD Challenges: Using Structure As A Successful Strategy from 2017-08-08T16:11
As of 2017 6.4 million children in the United States had been diagnosed with ADHD. That translates to roughly 11% of all kids. So for those families, we need to give parent strategies that are ...
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4 Ways To Reduce Anxiety In Your Teens from 2017-08-01T17:32
Fear of the unknown, fear of the future, fear of judgment or lack of acceptance, all of these are other ways of describing anxiety. Whatever the root cause or the irrational fear behind it, anxi...
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The Tough Teen Talk: What Not To Wear In Public from 2017-07-25T17:05
We all know the stories of teens hiding clothes in their backpacks so they can change at school. This allows them to avoid the conflict of arguing with their parents about their choice in clothi...
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Real Consequences For Your Teen That Work from 2017-07-18T17:39
Consequences are built on deterrence theory. The idea is that if you cause pain to me, I will cause pain of equal or greater value in return. Structuring a behavioral modification plan for your...
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Real Answers For Your Teen's Negative Self-Talk from 2017-07-11T17:28
We have all heard, you are what you eat. What we don’t often realize is that our minds operate on the same premise that what we feed it will be used to build it. Now obviously our minds don’t a...
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3 Key Rules About Online Activity from 2017-07-04T17:12
The risk posed by online predators to our sons and daughters is extraordinary. These men often pose as teens themselves and promise money, escape, and the attention that so many teens desperatel...
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The Technology Trap: How Social Media And Text Apps Are Keeping Parents In The Dark from 2017-06-18T06:47:45
It seems so long ago that we had to call a landline to get a hold of someone we wanted to have a conversation with. Long gone are the days where parents acted as the gatekeeper for who their kid...
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