TPP 215: Dr. Christine Carter on The New Adolescence…In a Global Pandemic
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What challenges do teens face during the pandemic and how can parents acknowledge them?
I think that the first thing is to say to kids, you know, there's gonna be a payout here, you guys. And that is that you are gonna be able to handle change and uncertainty much better than previous generations. Cause like that's what we're learning right now. This is very, very hard. And I I think that's also really important to acknowledge.
Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. This week's episode is all about the challenge of raising teenagers in today's world. But it's not all doom and gloom, I promise. I'm especially excited about this interview because my guest, Dr. Christine Carter, believes raising teens today need not be something for parents to simply endure, but that it can actually be enjoyable and fun. Christine is a sociologist, speaker, coach, and author of the brand new book, The New Adolescents: Raising Happy and Successful Teens in an Age of Anxiety and Distraction. A book which I found incredibly helpful, by the way.
And what I loved about this book and the work Christine is doing is that she's helping parents like us better understand our role during the teen years so we can truly show up. in the way our kids need us to, so we can all be happier, parents and teens alike. This is an uplifting conversation with a lot of concrete strategies and examples. And though Christine's book is aimed at parents of teens, so much of what we talk about is applicable to parents with kids of any age and can help all parents feel better prepared for and more optimistic about those adolescent years. And now here is my conversation with Christine. Hello, Christine. Welcome to the podcast. Thanks for having me. Well, I am happy to have you here and talk about your work and your new book.
But before we get into that, I always ask my guests to introduce who they are in the world and and if you can within that answer touch upon your personal why for the work that you do.
Sure. I'm an author speaker and a coach and um You know, I have a PhD in sociology, so I've always looked at happiness and well-being, which is mostly what I've studied from a uh the perspective of what the things that we have control over, right? Our behaviors and beliefs and, you know, cultural aspects. So m you know, my my personal why in all of this, why do I write parenting books? Why do I write books about work life balance is because I teach what I need to learn, right? Like I was raised uh a pretty anxious kid. I come from a long line of very anxious women on both sides of my family and And I I would say I'm not an anxious person anymore, that's for sure. I've really over the last couple of decades um
changed the way I interact in the world and the way I see the world in in such a way that uh you know, I have a lot more um piece. But I couldn't have done that if I hadn't studied what I've studied and written the books that I have. So my m most recent book is called The New Adolescents, Raising Happy and Successful Teens in an Age of Anxiety and Distraction. And I think it's quite relevant that I have four teenagers. Um, myself. So um I wrote the book about teens in time to raise teens. Yeah. Just kinda how I work.
Yeah, I'm curious to know What your kids think of your book. Have they read it? Do they know that they are the inspiration for your most recent contribution?
I don't you know, I don't know. I gave it to all of them. Um and I don't think that they've really read it. Like I know that they've flipped through little parts of it and um and they it comes back to me, you know, because I've written about them a lot for their whole lives, basically. My first parenting book, Raising Happiness, I wrote when Molly and Fiona were three and five where I started working on that. Like when they were really, really little. Um, so now I think that they just take it in stride. They have this sort of idea that I I can kind of make them internet famous a little bit. Like they're it's so funny how their attitudes have changed towards this.
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