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Helping Teens With Anxiety

By |2019-01-07T18:23:53+00:00January 29th, 2019|Today's Teenager Podcast Episode|

In this episode, Roy further addresses how anxiety affects young people, especially their spiritual life. Roy offers tips for helping teens who struggle with anxiety, including less technology, more social interaction with friends and family, and avoiding transferring anxiety to teens.  Roy has established Today's Teenager as a [...]

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Why Are Some Teens Delaying Getting Their Driver’s License?

By |2019-01-07T18:09:12+00:00January 25th, 2019|Today's Teenager Podcast Episode|

In this episode, Roy addresses the surprising phenomenon of teens putting off getting their driver's licenses. Roy shares from his own experience working with teens as a counselor and from his interaction with teens and adult through speaking. The prevailing trend is that more and more teens avoiding [...]

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Responding Instead Of Reacting To Teens

By |2019-01-07T18:23:33+00:00January 22nd, 2019|Today's Teenager Podcast Episode|

In this episode, Roy discusses the struggle many adults have when working with teens: reacting instead of responding to their behavior. Roy builds on Dr. Steven Covey's observation that  humans have a gap between a stimulus and response and that this gap can be widened through forethought and [...]

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Helping Perfectionist Teens

By |2019-01-07T17:55:25+00:00January 18th, 2019|Today's Teenager Podcast Episode|

In this episode, Roy explores the surprising way that anxiety manifests among many teens today: perfectionism. The teen who has to do most things absolutely perfectly, like homework with little point value or getting upset when not making a perfect score on a test are teens struggling with [...]

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Existential Depression In Teens

By |2019-01-07T18:22:49+00:00January 15th, 2019|Today's Teenager Podcast Episode|

In this episode, Roy explores a form of depression that many adults are unaware young people are experiencing: existential depression. This type of depression is often a of psychological and spiritual experiences in which matters of life and death, freedom, intimacy, and ultimate meaning weigh heavily on a [...]

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Helping Teens Define Success

By |2019-01-07T18:22:28+00:00January 11th, 2019|Today's Teenager Podcast Episode|

  In this episode, Roy addresses one of the greatest sources of anxiety for teens today: the pursuit of an unhealthy and often unconscious definition of success. Roy uses the example of teens who suffer panic attacks after failing tests to address what grades and performance really mean [...]

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Helping Teens Regulate Emotions

By |2019-01-07T18:23:02+00:00January 7th, 2019|Today's Teenager Podcast Episode, Uncategorized|

As Roy explains in this episode, more and more teens are having difficulty regulating their emotions. Being “emotional” and having a roller coaster of feelings is a normal part of being a teenager. Yet many teens experience this intensity at unhealthy levels and for extended lengths of time. [...]

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Dealing With Teenage Apathy

By |2018-11-30T23:51:49+00:00December 28th, 2018|Today's Teenager Podcast Episode|

It’s easy to see how one could assume that today's youth doesn’t care as much as teens once did. Over the years, Roy has discovered several, at times overlapping, reasons teens become apathetic. Many parents and other adults will comment or complain that teens don't care about school, [...]

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13 Reasons Why Season 2

By |2018-11-30T23:46:40+00:00December 21st, 2018|Today's Teenager Podcast Episode|

In this episode, Roy addresses the second season of the controversial Netflix series, 13 Reasons Why. Roy begins by detailing the plot of the first and second seasons and then explores the positive and negative elements of the series. Roy offers strategies and talking points for adults who [...]

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How Much Screen Time Is Too Much?

By |2018-11-30T23:52:42+00:00December 18th, 2018|Today's Teenager Podcast Episode|

In this episode, Roy addresses one the questions he's most frequently asked by parents: how do you know how much screen time is enough for kids and how do you know when they're spending too much time on their devices? Roy believes that while there are no exact [...]

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