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Parenting Teens and Tweens

Supporting Your Teens Through Big Emotions

Published 21 days ago • 1 min read

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Hey friends:

The teen years can bring intense emotions and difficult moments—for teens and parents alike. You don’t have to have all the answers. Listening without judgment, staying connected, and letting your teen know you’re there can make a meaningful difference.

In this email, we’ll share practical ways to support your teen, communicate through challenging moments, and recognize when extra help, grace, and love may be useful.

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-Whitney & the PTT team

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5 Critical Tips to Defuse an Emotional Teen

It is very common for humans to express our hurt in inappropriate ways. For adolescents, it can be even more powerful and excessive. Here's how to help.

How to Help Your Teen Better Manage Anger

Anger is a typical, healthy emotional response to the stress teens experience at this stage in life. We need to give our kids the right to feel and own anger—and the tools to do so. After all, anger helps us understand when our buttons are being pushed, our values are not respected, or someone is ignoring our boundaries.

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​How Parents Can Help Teens with Dangerous Thoughts

This is a contributed piece by Kevin Hines, who survived a jump off of the Golden Gate Bridge to attempt to die by suicide. Here's what he shares about how parents can guide a teen through these negative thoughts.

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