TPP 246: What it Takes to Grow Up Safely in Today’s World, with Jonathan Cristall
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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 Tilt Parenting podcast and who is the host?
From my perspective, hope is not a strategy and it's not always comfortable to think about these things. But I certainly am not saying these things are gonna happen to any of our children, but you know, maybe it's a friend, maybe it's a loved one, and you just never know, you know, what's gonna happen or what the future holds.
Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Rieber. This week's episode is a must-listen to if you have a teen, a tween, or will someday have a teen or tween. So yeah, pretty much all parents. My guest is veteran prosecutor for the city of Los Angeles and former troubled teen Jonathan Crystal. Five years ago, Jonathan set out to write the book he needed himself as the father of three teenage boys, and the result is What They Don't Teach Teens, Life Safety Skills for Teens and the Adults Who Care For Them. Drawing on his experience on both sides of teenagehood and the law, Jonathan is on a mission to teach 21st century life skills to young people and their families.
I invited Jonathan to the show to talk about these skills and strategies needed for modern adolescents, what they are and why parents, especially parents of differently wired kids, need to understand the different world their children are growing up in. We talk about interacting with police and personal rights, physical and internet, online safety, street smarts, sexual consent and sex tortion, and much more. And we only cover a fraction of what's in the book, so I highly encourage you to check it out. Lastly, I want to give a quick shout out to three new supporters of the podcast. Thank you so much to Pam Crane. Ryan Brown and Aaron Hill for helping to support the production costs associated with this show.
If you get a lot out of this podcast and would like to help me cover the cost of its production, please consider joining my Patreon campaign. On Patreon, you can sign up to make a small monthly contribution to support the show. Just go to patreon.com slash tiltparenting to learn more. And now here is my conversation with Jonathan Crystal. Hey Jonathan, welcome to the podcast.
Hey Debbie. Thanks for having me.
course. I was super intrigued when I got your email telling me about your book and the work that you do and I have had a couple of conversations, you know, that have talked about safety in a general sense, but I was really intrigued by your book and I just thought this would be a an interesting topic to bring to my listeners. So as a way of introduction, tell us uh a little bit about yourself, kind of who you are in the world and your personal why for this work that you're doing.
Absolutely. So again, thanks for having me. I'm excited to be here. Um again, uh Jonathan Crystal's my name. I live here in Los Angeles and for the last twenty years or so I've been a prosecutor for the LA City Attorney's Office. Uh it was pretty unlikely I'd ever become a lawyer, let alone a prosecutor enforcing the laws because I used to break a a few laws as a teenager. I was a troubled teen. I was a good kid. Um I got pivoted off path at some point. I had a difficult family situation and Uh I started doing things I shouldn't have been doing. I shouldn't have lived through my teen years, but you know, here I am, thankfully. Um, I'm also trained and certified to teach on sexual violence prevention with a very large uh nonprofit here in LA.
But I suppose the the most important thing to know about me is I'm a father to three sons. Uh my wife Lisa and I um have three boys, all uh teenagers. And I don't know, about maybe like six or so years ago, uh Lisa, my wife says to me, almost like as an aside, Hey, you know, it's time we gotta start teaching the the older boys about um sexual consent and I of uh you know, of course it w it was that time and It started me thinking about, you know, all the other things that that We should be teaching them as as parents or caregivers.
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