Conncting with preteen daughter & college drinking- Zen Talk #146
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- Next Zen Talk (147) will be on Friday, July 22nd @ 1:00 PM Central.
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Keep on truckin’!
Todd+Cathy
Discussion & Time Stamps
- 0:39 Centering
- 5:35 Cannot connect with my 12-year-old daughter
- 37:20 Alcohol boundaries when college kids come home for summer
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12:07:26 From Cathy : 5
12:07:35 From Kristen : 7
12:07:45 From Sally O’Neill (she/her) : 5
12:07:53 From Nicki’s iPhone : 4
12:08:08 From kim Gardner : 3 at home 10 with the state of affairs 😊
12:08:15 From Carrie Kelleher – Chicago : Sorry, I gotta go and I’ll be back. Have to drive my daughter to new job. She literally got the job 5 minutes ago. haha!
12:14:10 From Todd Adams : who is willing to go after Kristen?
12:21:45 From kim Gardner : Some of the things that I write down is a release. I would never speak them or are they a reflection who who I am!
12:32:08 From Sally O’Neill (she/her) : I have a question for Kristen
12:35:02 From Sally O’Neill (she/her) : Can you wait and see?
12:36:41 From Nicki’s iPhone : My husband and I struggle to raise the hard things with our son,
12:38:24 From Sally O’Neill (she/her) : Is it an opportunity to bond to give her a journal and tell her nobody will ever read it and she will have a safe space to put her feelings?
12:40:51 From Todd Adams : Anybody want to go after Kristen?
12:40:55 From Sally O’Neill (she/her) : You can also model your honesty
12:42:14 From Carrie Kelleher – Chicago : Can I go?
12:42:53 From Sally O’Neill (she/her) : When I am honest and vunerable, I tell my kids that I ask them to talk about the hard stuff with me so it’s only fair that I do the hard talks, too. I’m not above it.
12:53:35 From Todd Adams : anybody else want to weigh in on this one?
12:54:06 From Sally O’Neill (she/her) : I have a question about this
12:54:24 From Nicki’s iPhone : Just about struggling to raise hard things with kid
13:09:33 From Carrie Kelleher – Chicago : Thank you for the feedback!
13:09:44 From Alicia Schultz : Happy Canada Day!
13:10:02 From Alicia Schultz : If we have any Canadians here
13:11:09 From Alicia Schultz : It’s my 2nd favorite country!