100: Helping Your Teen Be the Best Version of Themselves

A very special 100th episode! Thank you to all of you, our amazing listeners. Whether you’ve been with us since the beginning in 2020, or you’re just tuning in now, you’ve helped make our podcast the success it has grown to be. I am grateful for your continued support of our programming! I can’t think of a better guest today than the person I’m about to introduce. She has been by my side on this parenting journey, my incredible wife, Suzanne. In addition to being an amazing mom, she is the Director of Customer Experience & Channel Marketing at Revolution a REV UP BRANDS Company; a leading B2B organization that serves dance studios and educators world-wide. She has a passion for leading growth, innovation, and change. Suzanne has been published in over 100 business articles for Dance Teacher Magazine’s "Ask the Experts" as a contributing columnist for over a decade. She regularly speaks and presents workshops at leading dance industry conferences and events. Suzanne earned her undergraduate degrees in Psychology and Child Development from Colby-Sawyer College. She has an MBA from the University of New Hampshire with a specialization in Growth & Innovation. She is also a Certified Change Management Professional, CCMP. This past July, we celebrated our 23rd wedding anniversary! Each child is so different and the way we communicate with them needs to be too. How we open up the dialogue with them to communicate can be done in a variety of ways. Keeping family values in the forefront is essential in building a foundation for communication. Asking open-ended questions, then listening to what they share, can help you know how to support them. Are you giving advice, coaching them, or just listening? Every child’s stage of development is at their own pace. There is no “finding balance” as a parent, it’s about going with the ebb and flow of activity, seasons, sports, interests, and hobbies of each child. How to recalibrate when your teen gets too involved. There’s no one way to parent, we’ll make mistakes, we’ll learn. It takes a village. It’s important to apologize to your teen if you’ve not been at your best. Help them leverage with what they’re great at! There is so much we can learn from our teen’s. Sponsored by EdGerety.com Resources Book: How To Raise An Adult Book: The 5 Love Language’s