Sh*t Your Teenagers Won’t Tell You

By Cathy ChenParenting Kids & Family

Sh*t Your Teenagers Won’t Tell You episodes

March 23, 2022Listomania
In this episode of Sh*t Your Teenagers Won’t Tell You, hosts Cathy and Meredith discuss how to build an effective college list. They also talk about the do’s and don’ts of building a college list and how parents can best support their teen during the college process.

TIMESTAMPS
[00:00] Intro
[01:25] How to build an effective college list
[01:43] A cautionary tale
[09:30] A hopeful tale
[13:30] Do’s and Don’ts
[18:00] Where you go doesn’t determine who you are
[25:00] Rankings are dumb
[28:38] Letting go of ego and vanity
[32:00] Focus on the big picture
[33:19] Let’s talk food! What are your staples?
[38:43] Outro

LINKS
Herrera Educational Consulting
Village Coaches
Sh*t Your Teenagers Won’t Tell You website
Where You Go is Not Who You’ll Be
40 min
March 16, 2022Motivating Your Teen
In this episode of Sh*t Your Teenagers Won’t Tell You, hosts Cathy and Meredith talk about motivation or the lack thereof. How does procrastination show up? Cathy and Meredith explore some of the reasons behind procrastination and provide parents with strategies to help manage this issue with their teenagers.

TIMESTAMPS
[00:00] Intro
[1:17] Topic overview: Motivation
[02:41] Understanding procrastination and lack of motivation
[08:30] Use caution when using labels
[10:36] Strategies for parents
[15:02] When do you let natural consequences run their course?
[21:50] How to grow good humans
[24:25] Incentivizing your child
[26:52] Keeping things in perspective
[31:02] Ending on a sweet note
[38:38] Outro

LINKS
Herrera Educational Consulting
Village Coaches
Sh*t Your Teenagers Won’t Tell You website
40 min
March 09, 2022Summer Planning
In this episode of Sh*t Your Teenagers Won’t Tell You, hosts Cathy and Meredith discuss summer planning. How should your child approach their summer? Should they double down on academics? Should they ‘round’ out their resume? Cathy and Meredith share some tried and true answers to the most common questions about summer planning.

TIMESTAMPS
[00:00] Intro
[01:14] Summer planning
[02:12] What should I do this summer? Does it really matter?
[5:00] How can you challenge or grow yourself?
[6:49] A word on taking academic classes over the summer
[8:26] The pitfalls of over focusing on selective schools instead of fit
[11:17] Summers do kind of matter
[12:30] Summer is a good time to help teens figure out what’s important to them
[14:28] I heard that if my child takes this summer program at X university, it will increase their chances of getting in
[16:42] What admissions officers are really trying to assess
[22:03] How do you approach resistance in your teens to summer planning?
[25:10] Encourage your teen’s independence when looking at summer opportunities
[28:43] Get out of your comfort zone
[32:55] Student voices on their meaningful summer experiences
[37:58] Outro

LINKS
Herrera Educational Consulting
Village Coaches
Sh*t Your Teenagers Won’t Tell You website
39 min
February 16, 2022Teenage Mutant Teenagers
In this episode of Sh*t Your Teenager Won’t Tell You, hosts Cathy and Meredith offer some perspective on what it means to be an adolescent. They discuss what it means developmentally and offer advice on what parents can do for their teenagers.

TIMESTAMPS
[00:01] Intro
[01:26] Would Cathy and Meredith be a teenager again
[03:12] What is a teenager
[05:57] Brain development
[12:01] An important stage of identity construction
[16:32] What parents can do when adolescents are difficult
[23:12] Support, not rescue
[29:15] Be clear about values
[34:07] Host’s final thoughts
[37:39] Outro

LINKS
The Values Deck | A Card Sorting Game to Explore Your Personal Values
Herrera Educational Consulting
Village Coaches
Sh*t Your Teenager Won’t Tell You website
39 min
February 09, 2022Interview with a Stanford Admission Officer
In this episode of Sh*t Your Teenager Won’t Tell You, hosts Cathy and Meredith speak with Yamilet Medina López, Assistant Dean of Admission for Diversity Outreach and External Relations, about the admission process. Yamilet discusses how she helps parents understand the process and how parents can best support their students. She also shares what makes a strong application.

TIMESTAMPS
[00:01] Intro
[01:00] Meet Yamilet
[02:09] What brought her to work in college admission
[06:23] How she helps parents understand the admission process
[11:23] What characterizes a strong application
[17:06] Responding to inequities in the admission process
[21:33] Ways parents can best support students through process
[26:36] College is not for everyone
[35:34] This is a human process
[46:55] Host’s final thoughts
[54:21] Outro

LINKS
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
U.S. News Best Colleges
Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History: Project Dillard
Herrera Educational Consulting
Village Coaches
Sh*t Your Teenager Won’t Tell You website
55 min
February 03, 2022It’s Happening! Meet Cathy & Meredith
In the debut episode of Sh*t Your Teenagers Won’t Tell You, hosts Cathy and Meredith share what to expect on the podcast, which will discuss all things teen-related and help you become better parents along the way. They explain why they started this resource that pulls back the curtain on what teens are really thinking and why they chose to work with adolescents.

TIMESTAMPS
[00:00] Intro
[01:17] Why they started this podcast
[02:58] About Herrera Educational Consulting
[06:26] Why you should listen to the podcast
[10:20] Why they chose to work with adolescents
[15:23] Main challenges/issues they see the most often
[23:46] How they and this podcast can help
[27:17] Meredith and Cathy ask each other questions
[32:11] What to expect on the podcast
[33:08] Outro

LINKS
Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania by Frank Bruni
Herrera Educational Consulting
Village Coaches
Sh*t Your Teenagers Won’t Tell You website
29 min
February 02, 2022A Teenager’s Mind Embarking on the College Admission Process
In this episode of Sh*t Your Teenagers Won’t Tell You, hosts Cathy and Meredith speak with Sophie Taubman, a current freshman at Wesleyan University. Sophie takes you into the mind of a teenager embarking on the college admissions process. She shares what she was feeling through the process and the advice she would give to the senior version of herself. She also shares her advice to parents.

TIMESTAMPS
[00:00] Intro
[03:58] Meet Sophie
[04:48] Sophie’s thinking for the admission process
[10:04] Advice to the senior version of herself
[15:13] Her thoughts on parents on this process
[31:38] College is an adjustment
[33:18] Hosts’ final thoughts
[37:50] Coming up on future episodes
[39:14] Outro

LINKS
Herrera Educational Consulting
Village Coaches
Sh*t Your Teenager Won’t Tell You website
40 min

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Shit Your Teenagers Won’t Tell You brings you candid conversations with experts in psychology, education, and college admissions — so you can better understand your teen and help them…