TPP 202: Psychologist Dr. Dan Peters on Navigating the Teen Years and Preparing for Launch
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is the purpose of the teen‑years conversation and why does it matter now?
To me, it's really about are the lights in our kids eyes on? And a lot of us have these bright eyed kids. And when they get to early adolescence, preteen adolescence, it starts to fade and it could fade for hormonal reasons, for social reasons, for academic reasons. But really, it's about trying to sidle up. next to them physically or actually metaphorically and help them figure out what is going on in their life so they can keep stepping in a direction that they are engaged in.
Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. This week, I'm bringing back Dr. Dan Peters, a psychologist, executive director of the Summit Center, co-founder of the Parent Footprint Awareness Training, and the author of the From Warrior to Warrior books. and one of my favorite experts to talk with about all things parenting. For those who remember my previous episode with Dan, and for those who missed it, I highly recommend it, and I will link to it in the show notes. But you'll know he is passionate about parenting with purpose and intention. And in today's episode, we're focusing on the teen years.
This is another timely topic as many of us find ourselves suddenly spending a lot more time with our teens. And while we weren't anticipating a future of sheltering in place when we recorded this just a few weeks ago, trust me that Dan is exactly the voice of encouragement we all need right now. In our conversation, Dan shares so much wisdom, not just from his practice, but from the trenches as a parent of teens himself. We talk about what are the most important developmental tasks during the teen years, how to support our teens with those tasks without being overbearing, how and why to resist the urge to focus on grades, what are definitely why our teens really need from us, and more. Okay, now here is my conversation with Dr. Dan.
Hey, Dan, welcome to the podcast.
Great to be back, Debbie.
Yeah, I should have said welcome back to the podcast. It's been a little while, but you and I have been in touch, so it doesn't seem like it's been that long. But could you take a few minutes just to reintroduce yourself to my listeners? I talk about your work a lot and certainly refer people to your practice, but could you just tell us a little bit about who you are?
Absolutely. So I am a licensed psychologist by training and work, and I am the executive director of our center called the Summit Center in California, predominantly in Northern California with an office in Southern California as well. And our goal is to help children, adolescents, families, and adults reach their developmental potential, like fully become who they are meant to be. And with that, a specialty of ours, in addition to working with learning differences and anxiety and other emotional and developmental issues, is focusing on gifted and twice exceptional individuals, all of those wonderful neurodiverse people with amazing potential. So we do a lot of testing and consulting and counseling for those folks.
And the other part of my life is working on the Parent Footprint podcast, which you have been a guest and are going to be a guest soon as well again, which I'm excited about. And that mission and goal is to make the world a more loving place, one parent and one child at a time.
So good. So good. And I'm so excited about this conversation because, well, I mean, you know, this is kind of a personal thing for me, too. So I will benefit greatly from this conversation. But this is something that really comes up everywhere that I speak to groups of parents, especially as our differently wired kids get older and they're in the later middle school years or in high school and the pressure grows. For everybody, it just seems to ramp up. And it's a really confusing time because we really want them to be autonomous, but we also feel like there's so much at stake. So I want to talk about that today. I want to really just get into...
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