Before You Kill Yourself Podcast with Lee Flowers
Kim and Luis are here to discuss their book, Emotionally Resilient Tweens and Teens: empowering your kids to navigate bullying, teasing, and social exclusion.
Listen on ART19 here or on Apple Podcasts here.
We discuss:
- why bullying is more about controlling behavior
- how to get your tween/teen to open up
- how parents, coaches and kids and work together
- what are “entitlement monsters?”
- how extroverted kids respond to bullying vs introverted kids
- best practices for parents to protect their kids
- what parents shouldn’t say to a kid who is being bullied
- how parenting became a “contact sport”
- why stressed kids are underachieving kids and targets for bullying
- how to teach an aggressive teen to be assertive and a leader
BIOS:
KIM JOHN PAYNE, M.ED., has been a counselor, educator, consultant, and researcher for over thirty years and is the author of several acclaimed books, including Simplicity Parenting, The Soul of Discipline, and Being at Your Best When Your Kids Are at Their Worst.
LUIS FERNANDO LLOSA is an award-winning PeruvianAmerican sportswriter, editor, speaker, investigative reporter, and youth sports consultant who has worked with kids and teens as a coach for twenty-five years. Llosa is the coauthor of Beyond Winning.