Parenting Teens and Tweens with Jaime Carden-O’Brien

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On this week's episode of The Motherhood Mentor Podcast I am joined by my co-host Jaime to talk all things parenting tweens and teens. Jaime is not only a mom of teens but also a therapist working with this age group who can give us the real tea of what our kids are really needing from us, and what they really DON'T need from us. We speak vulnerably to the weight and reality of helping ourselves and our kids walk through this season of our lives.

We dive into the topics of: 

Embracing and normalizing emotions 

Supporting teen emotional and communication development 

Parenting with mindfulness and empathy 

And Jaime shares the most effective parenting strategies that she’s learned through her experience as a teen therapist and herself as a mom. 

Tween and teen parenting has it’s own struggles and experience and we know this episode will not only encourage you and your experience but give you simple practical ways to show up to this season. 

Jaime is the founder of Free to Be and a Licensed Professional Counselor who has been working to help people live their best lives for 29 years. She has specialized in working with children and adolescents for the majority of her career and noticed consistent themes occurring with the teen girls she saw in her practice. Young women are getting caught up in the comparison game, just as so many women before them,  feeling like they are not enough, don’t measure up, and  feeling like they don’t belong. Through her own personal development work, Jaime realized how wonderful it would be for girls to start working on themselves at a younger age rather than waiting till they were in their 30’s or 40’s. When girls are able to realize they can be themselves, they will be more confident to find their people, the ones who accept them for who they are. Free to Be is all about teaching girls how to love and accept themselves and to be strong in their voices. Jaime believes that when we are accepting of ourselves, we are able to be more accepting of others which leads to making those meaningful connections we all need in our lives.

You can find out more about Jaime and free to be here: 

Freetobemovement.org

@Free.to.be.movement

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