Power Your Parenting: Moms With Teens

By Colleen O'Grady LPC, LMFT, author, speaker & C-Suite Radio

Colleen O'Grady, MA. is a speaker, trainer and author of the award-winning and best-selling book Dial Down the Drama: Reduce Conflict and Reconnect with Your Teenage Daughter---A Guide for Mothers Eve... more

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Number 1: #145 How to Inspire Your Teens in Challenging Times
How can parents inspire their teens in challenging times? To address this question I have invited Ed Gerety to be our guest. Ed Gerety has been an inspirational speaker to tweens and teens for 28 years, He is an author, and podcast host of “Parents Navigating the Teen Years”. At 20 years of age, Ed established his own business dedicated to helping others develop as leaders and to reach out and make a difference. Since that time, Ed has shared his powerful message in all 50 states, Canada, and Europe. And his greatest creds are that he is a father to two high school students. This is such a great conversation. We talk about the difference between motivating and inspiring your teen. And how to empower your teens to be resilient in these challenging times. We talk about the traps parents can fall into. Ed and I talk candidly about our own experiences as parents. Contact Ed at https://www.edgerety.com/education/contact/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
December 27, 202136min
Number 2: #147 How to Make Peace With Your Mom
In this episode, we turn our attention to our moms. Every mother-daughter relationship is complicated and this is true with our own moms. We can tend to reduce our mom to a single story, for example, you can idealize your mom, "she was the best mom ever" or label her like "my mom was such a perfectionist." The truth is that several things can be true at once. Our guest today Dr. Judy Rabinor shares her journey with her mom in her newest book, The Girl in the Red Boots. I love these 3 quotes from her book. “Every mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother and every mother extends backward into her mother and forward into her daughter.” —Carl G. Jung, MD “We are taught to believe that pent-up hostility is dangerous, yet the real tragedy is pent-up love. . . . The release of pent-up love and respect for our mothers brings the added gift of love and respect for ourselves.” —Paula J. Caplan, PhD "Grief has been my teacher, helping me understand, accept and make peace with the fragility of life, the complexity of love, and the imperfections inherent in all relationships, especially mothering." Judy Rabinor, PhD Judith Ruskay Rabinor Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, author and writing coach, writing coach, and consultant. She offers psychotherapy consultations for individual, couples, families, and mental health professionals. She conducts a therapy group for binge eaters, a consultation group for mental health clinicians interested in women’s issues and 2 writing groups—you can read more about these groups on her website: Judithruskayrabinorphd.com. She is the author of the recently published book (2021): The Girl in the Red Boots: Making Peace with My Mother and two previous books: A Starving Madness: Tales of Hunger, Hope and Healing and Befriending Your Ex After Divorce: Making Life Better for You, Your Kids and Yes, Your Ex . Contact Judy: www.judithruskayrabinorphd.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
January 10, 202248min
Number 3: #137 The Unlikely Art of Parental Pressure
In this episode we discuss, THE UNLIKELY ART OF PARENTAL PRESSURE: A POSITIVE APPROACH TO PUSHING YOUR CHILD TO BE THEIR SELF by Dr. Chris Thurber and Dr. Hendrie Weisinger. We hear a lot today about how much pressure teens are under and the dangers of parents pressuring their kids too much—and unknowingly creating kids who are anxious and depressed. They say that pressure itself actually isn’t bad — it’s an issue of how pressure is applied. And so we dive into what that means. How can parents differentiate between healthy and unhealthy pressure? All parents want their kids to be successful but what does that really mean? We explore the difference between stress and pressure. And then we talk about how to transform a "do or die" pressure into healthy pressure. Lots of rich and practical takeaways in this podcast , Chris Thurber, PhD, co-author of THE UNLIKELY ART OF PARENTAL PRESSURE is a board-certified clinical psychologist, educator, author, and father with a BA from Harvard and a PhD in child and adolescent psychology from UCLA. An acclaimed keynote speaker, he serves as a clinician and instructor at Phillips Exeter Academy. https://drchristhurber.com/product/the-unlikely-art-of-parental-pressure Hendrie Weisinger, PhD, co-author of THE UNLIKELY ART OF PARENTAL PRESSURE, is a world-renowned psychologist and pioneer in the field of pressure management, as well as the author of a number of bestselling books. He has consulted with and developed programs for dozens of 500 companies and government agencies. https://hankweisingerphd.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
November 01, 202155min
Number 4: #004 I Believe in You
The greatest gift you can give your teenage son or daughter is to believe in them. The real question is--what do you believe about them? And what you believe, boils down to what you focus on. If you focus on their good qualities and you combine that with faith, you are going to believe good things. If you focus on their attitudes and mistakes it's going to land you in fear. When fear strikes it blinds you from the good qualities in your teen. Your sight get's restricted to the very thing you are afraid of. Fear blows things out of proportion and greatly impacts both you and your teen. Your son and daughter are significantly impacted by what you believe about them. See, there is no perfect teen. They are a work in progress. Every teen is a mixed bag of drama, mistakes, talents, beauty and amazing possibilities. Listen and learn the Five Ways to Restore Your Belief in Your Teen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
December 07, 201523min
Number 5: #003 What Moms Need to Know about Cell Phones, Internet and the Teenage Brain
The teenage brain is under major reconstruction during the teenage years. There is a window of opportunity to "use it or lose it." What this means is that the brain is doing some major pruning of brain cells. If you use these brain cells these neural connections will stay. Experience is what causes these neurons to fire and wire together. If you don't use them you will lose them and they will wither away. The neurons that get used repeatedly by experience are wired together into the brain's electrical networks. If the digital world is not monitored it can be a barrier to your daughter "using it." It's not that the digital world is bad. There are many benefits.The Internet is a great resource for learning, sharing information, connecting with people, and being entertained. But how things have changed since we were in high school.The new digital world catches us off guard, because it's unfamiliar territory. When I was in High School I had a phone with a telephone cord. I could only talk in the kitchen or in my parents' bedroom. There was some built in accountability, but no more. With the ever-changing apps, instant messaging, texting, skyping, on cell phones, ipad's, and laptops; monitoring your teen can feel like an uphill battle. Shelly is a therapist and has a daughter who is in middle school. Shelly came to my office extremely upset. She had just gotten her phone bill. Her 7th grade daughter had sent three thousand texts in the past month and most of them were from midnight to 4am on school nights. Shelly was shocked, hurt and felt extremely betrayed. Shelly was unaware and unprepared. She didn't think about the addictive side of technology. She didn't consider her daughter's undeveloped PFC, and the dopamine thrill of connecting with boys at night. Once Shelly was educated about teens and cell phones, she realized it wasn't personal. Shelly intervened and put the brakes on, and took her daughter's cell phone at night. There are three big reasons you can "lose it" with electronics, which is too much screen time, inappropriate content, and chronic distraction. Dr. David Walsh in his book Smart Parenting, Smarter Kidsstates, "Today the average school-aged kid spends more than fifty-three hoursa week watching television, playing video games, or using the computer." Most teens don't get this much sleep in a week. A huge problem with this amount of screen time is that it is empty brain calories.They are not investing their attention, skills, and abilities in real life. This especially impacts their relationships. Many moms have complained that when their daughter has a friend spend the night that they barely talk to each other. They can be in the same room texting other friends, or even each other. As shocking as this is to us, in 2010 Pew Internet & American Life Project found that face-to-face communication fell behind texting as teen's favorite way of communicating with friends. This causes big problems for brain development. This is a critical time for the teenage brain to wire networks for communication skills, empathic listening and the ability to interpret and respond to non-verbal cues. All of these skills take practice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
December 01, 201521min