What Your High School Senior Needs From You

<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><u><span style= "font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Show Notes</span></u></strong><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Learn some specific ways parents can support high school seniors as they transition to the next leg of their journey.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><u><span style= "font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> Understand & normalize touch point feelings</span></u></strong><span style= "font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">:</span> <span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">lots of emotions arrive with any change, transition, and leap in development. Help your daughter become aware of these feelings, reframe them as normal, and find healthy ways to express them.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Encourage girls to focus on all of the emotions they are feeling, not just anxiety; i.e. excitement, adventure, freedom.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; color: #00b0f0;">Link to</span></strong> <a href= "https://drtimjordan.com/2018/03/048-aint-misbehavin-reason-behind-chaos-transitions/"> <strong><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; color: #00b0f0;">Previous podcast on touch points</span></strong></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><u><span style= "font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Listen without solving their problems, fixing, or rescuing</span></u></strong><span style= "font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">. Listen, mirror, get in her shoes, empathize, don’t jump to problem-solving & fix-it mode; share your stories so she knows you can relate.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; color: #00b0f0;">Link to</span></strong> <a href= "https://drtimjordan.com/?p=9426"><strong><span style= "font-size: