S4 Ep 5 Best Friend Therapy: Teenagers - How can we help our teens? What kind of teen were you? Why is defiance essential to development?
Dial Emma
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The Gift of Permission to Be Defiant
We are designed to be compliant at different stages in our lives. Then we are designed to go through no longer comply, but defy. The idea is that if we have permission to do both, to be compliant to begin with, then we get this really unique gift of permission to be defiant. That process is a good sign of a healthy team developing. And therefore we can stop pathologizing it. If we can learn not to take it personally, we can actually understand that this kid is doing exactly what they're designed to do right now.
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