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#079 What to Do With (Teen) Drama Thinking: "Everyone Hates Me"

#079 What to Do With (Teen) Drama Thinking: "Everyone Hates Me"

FromPower Your Parenting: Moms With Teens


#079 What to Do With (Teen) Drama Thinking: "Everyone Hates Me"

FromPower Your Parenting: Moms With Teens

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Length:
27 minutes
Released:
Aug 24, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Does your teen tend to say extreme generalizations like "everyone at school is so fake", "all the teachers are mean," or "I have no friends." These kind of statements can drive you crazy. You think your daughter is being so overdramatic or you think geez my son is so negative.
Why does this bother you? Teens often speak in one extreme or the other. This can be called binary thinking, black and white thinking or all or nothing thinking. The problem is this type of thinking is hurtful to your teen and to others.
If you teen tends to speak this way, they are not the only one. Actually, teens from all over the world often talk this way. Why is that?
The answer lies in Neuroscience.
In this episode I will give you practical steps to move your teen past this all or nothing thinking including avoiding the drama traps.
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Released:
Aug 24, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

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Colleen O'Grady, MA. is a speaker, trainer and author of the award-winning and best-selling book Dial Down the Drama: Reduce Conflict and Reconnect with Your Teenage Daughter---A Guide for Mothers Everywhere. Colleen shares her wisdom from twenty-five years of experience as a licensed marriage and family therapist which translates into over 50,000 hours of working with parents and teens. Colleen, known as the parent-teen relationship expert helps you raise the bar of what's possible for the teenage years. Colleen not only knows this professionally she has been a mom in the trenches with her own teenage daughter. You really can improve your relationship with your teen and dial up the joy, peace, and delight at home and work. Every episode is geared to uplift you, give you practical parenting tips that you can apply right away and keep you current on the latest in teen research and trends.