Smells Like Teen Parent
This podcast is for adolescents and the adults who annoy them. You want to have a good relationship with your teen and you also have to get them ready for the real world. Jenny Debevec, a nationally certified counselor and consultant with 20 years working with teens, helps you maintain your sense of humor, offering motivation, advice, and support as we walk this sometimes smelly road. You will hear fun discussions and let’s get real interviews with parents, kids, and experts about topics like college applications, sex and gender identity, social media, relationships, learning disabilities, parent self-care, puberty, and more! If you need a laugh, a little advice or just want to know you’re not alone, listen in.
Smells Like Teen Parent
Bonus! Parent Tools for Productive Discussions about Social Media
So how DO we talk to teens in an effective way? Bringing you parents and caregivers a set of micro-skills to foster honest productive dialogues about loaded topics.
These Microskills include:
- Attending behavior and empathy
- Being present and open
- Observation, where you note how the body language, vocal quality, and facial expression of the child changes depending on what they are saying.
In this bonus feature you will hear uncut conversations between me and my adolescent (over breakfast and in the car) about social media. I also offer recommendations to caregivers of how using Intentional Interviewing counseling techniques can help you, no matter what topic is terrifying us.
