Joyful Courage for Parenting Teens Casey O'Roarty

My guest this week is Janae Young, and I’m so excited that she’s here to share her wisdom as a college admissions coach with us.  

Janae shares why she’s so passionate about college admissions, and we talk about what the admissions process looks like now, including what the common application system is. Janae shares what’s challenging about college application essays for adolescents, tips to help, and her two archetype essay writers. I ask Janae what best practices are for parents who are helping their kids through the college application process, and she shares where we can support and when we need to back off. We hit on missed deadlines & natural consequences and how to best list awards & activities. I ask Janae what kids can be doing in 9th, 10th, and 11th grade to help prepare for college applications, and we briefly touch on ACTs and SATs. 

Takeaways from the show

What’s the college application process look like now? 

Common application system 

College application essays 

“Perfectionist Polly” and “Rushed Ryan” 

How can parents best support their teen during this process? 

Week-by-Week college application calendar 

College applications are their job, not yours 

Missed deadlines & learning through mistakes 

What teens can do in 9th, 10th, and 11th grades to help the college admissions process 

Best time to take SATs 



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Join me today as I explore what motivates our teens, parenting that gets in the way, and how to dismantle the armor they create over time. It's a brand new solos show!

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I’m so excited that Michelle Icard is back today to chat about her newest book: 8 Setbacks That Can Make a Child a Success.  

Michelle shares with me how parents can best support their adolescents through setbacks and why we can’t swoop in to fix everything for them.  She explains her three steps to take when dealing with a problem: contain, resolve, & evolve, and we touch on where consequences show up.  Kids are always going to make more mistakes, and it’s critical that we allow children to learn from those mistakes.  Michelle and I tease apart how much credit we take for our kids’ behavior - good and bad, and we talk about how hard it can be to balance staying “fiercely committed & lovingly detached” to our teens.  Michelle has an awesome analogy about how toughening up our teens & encouraging grit is like a greenhouse keeper hardening their plants.  We agree that we don’t need to create a tough environment for our kids though - that already exists, and we end sharing a few successes & outcomes that can follow the hard times.

Takeaways from the show

Setbacks and failures make us smarter and better 

How to best support your adolescent through setbacks 

Mistakes are opportunities to learn 

3 steps to take while dealing with failure 

Kids & teens must learn through their own experiences 

Kids are going to continue to make mistakes - that doesn’t mean they aren’t learning 

Your kids aren’t part of your brand 

“Fiercely committed, lovingly detached” 

Children shouldn’t be burdened by our emotions 

How can teens toughen up & build resiliency



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Join me in chapter NINE of Joyful Courage: Calming the drama and taking control of your parenting journey, the book I published back in 2019. I will be discussing what holds up and things I’ve learned during the wild years since it came out.

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My guest today is Sapna Rad, and we’re getting into back-to-school season with teens. 

First, Sapna shares about herself & what kicked off her path to conscious parenting. We talk about the shift from our small kiddos wanting to be attached to us 24/7 to the teen years when they start individuating and lean away. Sapna helps me define what conscious parenting is and we discuss how that complements Positive Discipline.  

I ask Sapna what parents need to remember as kids head back to the classroom, then I bring up teens who don’t want to talk & share with their parents and ask what behaviors might manifest when teens are feeling anxious. Sapna shares what “getting hooked” looks like and how we can start noticing our triggers. We get into how routines look different with teens and how getting routines dialed in can help reduce stress all around. We wrap talking about how parents can practice mindfulness.  

Takeaways from the show

Anxiety in children 

Individuation happens in all teens 

What is conscious parenting? How does that fit with Positive Discipline? 

What to remember as kids head back to school 

When your teen doesn’t want to talk to you 

Behaviors that manifest when teens are feeling anxious 

When to use silence as a tool with adolescents 

Tools to notice your triggers

Redefining what routines look like for teens 

Clues you might be missing a routine 

Practicing mindfulness


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Join me in chapter eight of Joyful Courage: Calming the drama and taking control of your parenting journey, the book I published back in 2019. I will be discussing what holds up and things I’ve learned during the wild years since it came out.
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