52: How Parenting Needs to Shift in the Teenage Years with Sarah Dimick

52: How Parenting Needs to Shift in the Teenage Years with Sarah Dimick

April 24, 2026 · 36 min · Season 2 · Episode 52

About this episode

Jen Bluske and Sarah Dimick discuss the challenges of parenting teenagers and strategies for effective communication and connection.

Sarah Dimick returns to talk with Jen how parenting teens can sometimes be super challenging and the reasons why it feels so tricky. Jen and Sarah discuss what is happening at this age from a brain development perspective and why teens tend to push back on much of what we say in their questions for autonomy. They give strategies for how to set effective boundaries and ways to create moments of lasting connection during these years. Deepening Into Parenting Membership **Submit questions for Jen to answer on the podcast AT THIS LINK . Host: Jen Bluske Producers: Jamie Gale and Jen Bluske Contact Jen Bluske: Clinic Website Thriving Parents Collective Website Where They’re Planted is a Lit Path Studios Production. ⁠www.litpathstudios.com⁠ | IG: ⁠@litpathstudios⁠

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