205: The New Edition of Untangled by Dr. Lisa Damour

Ask Lisa: The Psychology of Parenting

Dr. Lisa Damour/Good Trouble Productions

Kids & Family, Mental Health, Parenting, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 720 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

“Ask Lisa: The Psychology of Parenting” is the essential podcast for parents seeking expert guidance, tested strategies, and psychological insights on raising kids, especially tweens and teens. Join renowned clinical psychologist Dr. Lisa Damour and former journalist and mom of two Reena Ninan as they explore real-life parenting challenges. Looking to learn more about how to boost kids’ resilience, build their confidence, or support their emotional well-being? Dr. Lisa and Reena have got you covered! Together they address listener questions about stress, anxiety, social media concerns, school pressures, and challenges in peer relationships. Each episode provides practical advice and science-backed solutions to help parents raise resilient, confident, and emotionally healthy kids. Tune in every week for the latest topics in parenting, child psychology, and family wellness. Get answers to your most pressing parenting questions. New episodes drop every Tuesday. ________________ Lisa and Reena dive deep into the essential tools every parent needs to raise healthy, resilient teenagers—especially in today’s rapidly evolving world. Drawing from her updated book Untangled, Lisa shares invaluable insights on the most common parenting struggles, from navigating the challenges of modern technology and social media to managing peer relationships and ensuring your teen's well-being. Dr. Lisa explores how to identify what's normal and when to seek help, giving you clarity on navigating your teen’s turbulent years. With the new edition of Untangled addressing challenges including social media algorithms, vaping, and rising mental health concerns, Lisa provides a timely and necessary update to help parents understand today’s risks and how to manage them. Whether you're feeling isolated as you raise your teen or unsure about how to handle the complexities of modern parenting, this episode is packed with wisdom, practical tips, and a lot of heart to help parents to gain the confidence and clarity they need to navigate the rollercoaster of raising a teen. Remember, you’re not alone in this journey. The e-book of the revised edition is available NOW! The paperback version of the revised edition will be available soon. Follow and subscribe to our YouTube channel where you can see all our latest video episodes: https://youtube.com/@asklisapodcast And follow us on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn @AskLisaPodcast, @Lisa.Damour, @ReenaNinan. Checkout Dr. Lisa’s website for more resources: https://www.drlisadamour.com/ Ask Lisa is produced by: https://www.goodtroubleproductions.com Episode Keywords: Untangled book, Untangled revision, Untangled, Teen parenting guide, Parenting book for teens, Developmental tasks of teen, Untangled updated edition, Teen social media and technology, Teen peer relationships Show Keywords: ask lisa podcast, dr lisa damour, reena ninan, psychology, parenting, podcast, teens, tweens, parenting teens, parenting tweens, teen parenting, tween parenting, parenting tips, parenting advice, positive parenting, parenting podcast, teen behavior, tween challenges, raising tweens, raising teens, parenting hacks, parenting help, family dynamics, kids podcast, mental health, teen mental health, attachment styles, emotional intelligence

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Tell me a parenting issue everyone struggles with, with tweens and teens, but no one talks about.
0:06.9	Rina, I think a lot of people feel like they just don't know how to connect to their kid anymore.
0:12.3	I'm Rina Ninen and welcome to Ask Lisa, the Psychology of Parenting Podcast.
0:18.7	And I'm Dr. Lisa D'Amour.
0:20.3	We bring you science-back strategies for managing anxiety, discipline, intense emotions, and more.
0:26.6	We decode tough parenting challenges with tips that you can use right now.
0:32.0	So subscribe to Ask Lisa, the Psychology of Parenting Podcast, and join our YouTube community today. We're here to help
0:39.3	you untangle family life. Episode 205, the new edition of Untangled by our very own Dr. Lisa
0:48.0	DeMore.
0:58.9	So how many books have you written now at this point?
1:04.1	Well, three commercial books, untangled, under pressure, and the emotional lives of teenagers.
1:09.1	But, Rina, you know in a past life I wrote academic books, also textbooks and books about teaching.
1:16.2	And those have gone into a bunch of editions. So just a lot of books at this point, a decent number. Can I just say you are,
1:24.1	which most of our audience knows, a fabulous writer. And you have decided to revise an update untangled. Tell me in when you first when you first wrote it and why you wrote it.
1:30.2	So it published in 2016, which means that I turned it into my editor in 2015. So it's been 10
1:36.7	years since I worked on this manuscript. And, Rina, at that time, I was doing two things.
1:43.3	I was caring for a lot of teenagers in my practice,
1:45.8	largely teenage girls, and I was an instructor at Case Western Reserve University's
1:51.5	clinical psychology program. I was teaching graduate students how to be psychologists.
1:57.5	And I kept running into two problems, one in each category.
2:01.6	With the families in my practice, I kept thinking, gosh, you know what people could really use?
2:06.6	They could use a book about typical and expectable development in girls, and I can't find it.
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in -56 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Dr. Lisa Damour/Good Trouble Productions, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Dr. Lisa Damour/Good Trouble Productions and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.