Understanding How To Parent Teenagers | With Brooke Romney

Episode #45 with Brooke Romney

"It is really important ... to have a few people in your life when your kids are teenagers that you can go to and be honest and know that they have your child's best interest at heart and your best interest at heart ..."

Brooke Romney is a writer, speaker, educator and connector. She published her first book, I Like Me Anyway: Embracing Imperfection, Connection, and Christ in October 2020. It has helped women all over the world find purpose and peace. She has been published in The Washington Post, The Deseret News, Scary Mommy and a host of other online publications where her pieces have been read millions of times. Brooke writes avidly on her blog and Instagram page where she has created a large, vibrant community of learning and growth.

She is currently on the Time Out for Women speaking circuit. Brooke touches audiences with her message of worth, empowerment and connection. She regularly uses her education and expertise to help individuals, online accounts, and businesses tell their stories through a compelling and inviting narrative that positions them for success.

Brooke takes us through some tips on how to connect with our teenagers. It can be tricky to navigate feelings, hormones and mood swings. It's so important to make sure we are doing out best to take care of ourselves, our children and cultivating a safe place for them to be and live.

Brooke Romney Episode Transcript

[00:00:00] Kara: Hello and welcome to the today. I am enough podcast. I am so thrilled to have Brooke Romney with us today. She is an incredible author and incredible parent advocate, a teen advocate.

She has amazing tips on her website on her Instagram. She has lists for days I love we were going on. Soon. And I was looking at your website for audio book recommendations for kids. You had so many, I'm so excited. So brick is just full of so much knowledge and so much. Goodness. And I'm so excited to have her here.

Why don't you go ahead and introduce 

[00:00:34] Brooke: yourself? Hi, I am Brooke from me. I'm just so excited to be here. I just love like chatting with women and sharing our story it's and so just grateful to be on your podcast. Thank you. 

[00:00:46] Kara: So I'm going to turn the time over to Brooke and let her share her story and just like let you know more about her and what she is all about.

[00:00:58] Brooke: So there's kind of a lot of pieces of me. One of the things that I'm really good at is not having an attention span. That's long enough for just one thing. And so I have done a lot of things and I'm excited about a lot of things, but I would say like at my core, it's helping like women feel like they have a purpose and that they're needed and wanted and loved as they are.

And also, they have like incident possibility to like who you are today isn't necessarily who you will be tomorrow. But one of the things that I've really focused on lately as teenagers. Currently, I have three teenage boys and I have a nine-year-old also. And so I kind of entered into that teen parenting world and I felt very alone and lonely.

And like I was in way over my head with so many things. And so. One of the things that I do, like on my Instagram is I really try and help other women feel like they're not alone in this teen parenting situation.