Talking To Teens: Expert Tips for Parenting Teenagers

This episode features clinical psychologist Paul Sonseri discussing strategies for getting teenagers to listen and cooperate the first time they're asked, based on his 40+ years of experience in family therapy and his book 'Gentle Parenting Reimagined'.

This episode explores addiction through a sociological perspective, featuring an interview with professor Patricia Roos about her son's struggles with substance use and eating disorders.

This episode explores whether college is still relevant in today's business world, discussing the shift towards skills-based hiring, rising costs, and the impact of AI on education.

This episode explores the concept of the 'parent trap' where parents conflate caring with skill-building, featuring economist Nate Hilger discussing research on the hidden skills needed for children's success.

This episode explores how parents can help teenagers adopt an experimental mindset instead of linear goal-setting to foster creativity and unique outcomes, featuring an interview with author Anne Lahr about her book Tiny Experiments.

This episode features therapist Sean Grover discussing how parents can help teenagers overcome personal growth barriers by examining their own behaviors and family dynamics.

This episode features an interview with Rob Finlay about his book 'Hey Dad', which provides practical advice and answers to common questions teenagers have as they transition into adulthood, inspired by his own experiences with late-night calls from his kids.

This episode explores the challenges of parenting gifted and neurodivergent teenagers, featuring clinical psychologist Dr.

This episode explores why parents need to practice transformational listening with their teenagers to better understand their unspoken needs and improve communication.

Host Andy Erickson interviews author Melanie Schenkel about breaking generational parenting cycles and how her complicated relationship with her own mother influenced raising her daughter, discussing her new book 'Here Be Dragons' and the impact of the COVID pandemic on her writing.

This episode explores a new perspective on anxiety and panic attacks as helpful messengers rather than just symptoms to alleviate, featuring psychologist Nicole Cain discussing her book 'Panic Proof' and integrative approaches to mental wellness.

This episode features psychologist Richard Orbea Austin discussing how parents can prevent imposter syndrome in teenagers through expert insights and practical strategies.

This episode features an interview with Dr.

This episode explores the science of empowerment for parenting teenagers, focusing on how true empowerment involves confronting negative feelings like shame rather than suppressing them, featuring psychologist Dr.

This episode explores how parents can support teenagers through their first romantic relationships and heartbreaks, featuring author Lisa A.

This episode features an interview with psychology expert Ethan Cross about his new book on emotional regulation and how parents can help teenagers develop skills to manage their emotions for better life outcomes.

This episode explores research on teenage disengagement, featuring authors Jenny Anderson and Rebecca Winthrop discussing their book 'The Disengaged Teen' and the four different modes of engagement that parents should understand to better support their teens.

This episode features an interview with clinical psychologist Dr.

This episode explores Lighthouse Parenting with Dr.

This episode explores how music can be used as a powerful tool for connecting with teenagers, helping them manage emotions, and supporting their development through insights from authors Sarah Lela Sherman and Morten Sherman.

This episode features experts William Stixrood and Ned Johnson discussing their book 'The Seven Principles for Raising a Self-Driven Child' and how parents can provide the right presence to help teens feel secure, confident, and motivated.

This episode explores why traditional punishments often fail with teenagers and how shifting from viewing misbehavior as intentional to understanding it as a lack of ability can improve parent-teen relationships.

This episode features an interview with psychology professor Dr.

This episode explores research-based strategies for helping parents foster interest and curiosity in teenagers to boost their motivation and self-esteem, featuring an interview with psychiatry professor Paul C.

This episode explores how parents can help teenagers break bad habits and improve family communication patterns with clinical psychologist Dr.

This episode explores how parents can effectively support their teenagers by first connecting emotionally through right-brain communication before offering logical advice.

This episode features math teacher Ben Orlin discussing how parents can improve their own understanding of mathematics to better support their teenagers' learning and build confidence in the subject.

This episode features clinical psychologist Dr.

This episode features an interview with author Amy Betters-Midvett about her experiences raising five teenagers, discussing parenting evolution, communication strategies, and insights from her new book.

This episode explores how to raise teenagers to be skeptical thinkers by examining why people believe misinformation and how to better evaluate claims in a post-truth world.

This episode explores effective communication strategies for changing minds, focusing on building rapport and assessing certainty in conversations, particularly in the context of parenting teenagers.

This episode features an interview with author and coach J.D.

This episode features an interview with Scott H.

This episode explores how parents can raise politically informed and engaged teenagers through effective conversations and education, featuring political science professor Lindsay Cormack.

This episode features an interview with former MLB player and manager Mike Matheny about coaching youth sports with character and redefining success beyond just winning.

This episode explores the neuroscience of altruism in teenagers and how parents can foster kindness to improve their health, happiness, and college prospects.

This episode explores how parents can help teenagers develop a healthy relationship with money and find joy in managing resources effectively.

This episode explores the science and framework of validation, particularly how parents can effectively validate their teenagers using therapeutic techniques from dialectical behavioral therapy.

This episode features speaking expert Michael Chad Heppner discussing how parents can improve their communication skills with teenagers by focusing on delivery rather than just content.

This episode explores the challenges of people-pleasing in teenagers and how parents can help them develop self-awareness and assertiveness through an interview with author Amy Wilson.

This episode explores the science behind why parent-teen relationships can suddenly deteriorate and offers psychologically-backed strategies for fostering secure attachment and maintaining calm connections with teenagers.

This episode features an interview with Claudia Black about helping teenagers heal from substance use through emotional understanding, outlook changes, and addressing parental enabling patterns.

This episode features an interview with oncologist Dr.

This episode features experts Diane Ehrensaft and Michelle Jerkiewicz discussing their book 'Gender Explained' to debunk common myths about gender and provide accurate information for parents of teenagers.

This episode explores the science of teen body image with expert Dr.

Andy Earle and Diane Ehrensaft explore how kids today are creatively thinking beyond the gender binary.

Kate Parker's first gallery show sold zero photos, but she kept pushing until one blog changed everything.

Andy Earle and Kara Fitzpatrick explore how school choice is redefining public education and its deep community impacts.

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Christina Kuzmich and Andy Earle center the conversation on parenting Luca through depression, vaping, drinking, weed, self-harm, and a psychiatric hospital stay.

Talking to Teens host Andy Earle interviews Heather Hester about supporting teenagers who come out as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or non-binary.

Andy Earl interviews John Petruccelli, author of The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit, about distinguishing teenage bullshitting from lying.

Talking To Teens episode 288, “The Balance of Power in Parent-Teen Relationships,” looks at how teenage peer approval changes the leverage parents have at home.

Talking To Teens host Andy Earl interviews Yale professor emeritus Craig Wright about raising a genius through curiosity, broad interests, safe risk-taking, and meaningful contribution.

Andy Earle interviews Kristen Neff about replacing performance-based self-esteem with self-compassion as a parenting practice.

Andy Earl interviews therapist and author Louis Weinstock about the drama triangle of victim, rescuer, and persecutor in parent-teen relationships.

Andy Earl interviews the guest identified in the transcript as Kenneth Carey and later as Tanith Carey about developmental changes during the tween years, especially ages eight to twelve.

Tiffany Jewell, author of Everything I Learned About Racism I Learned in School, argues that school policies and traditions create an opportunity gap through unequal discipline, tracking, curriculum, and access to support.

Talking To Teens host Andy Earl interviews Chelsea Gooden, author of Underestimated: The Wisdom and Power of Teenage Girls, about listening to teenage girls without immediately fixing their problems.

Host Andy Earl interviews Sheila Liming, author of Hanging Out, The Radical Power of Killing Time, about why unstructured time matters for teenagers.

Talking to Teens host Andy Earle interviews David McGee about adolescent substance use, mental health, and the loss of McGee’s son William to an accidental overdose.

Andy Earle interviews Harvard Medical School pediatrician Michael Rich about digital wellness, including why he calls screen-time limits obsolete in a screen-saturated world.

Talking To Teens marks episode 200 with excerpts on parenting teenagers, including a father who offers “amnesty” after 20 teens drink at his home.

Beverly Daniel Tatum connects teenagers’ racial identity development to changing brain capacity and encounters with stereotypes.