2025-05-26
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Those authority figures, often your very own parents,
who insist that just because they've been around longer, they know what's best for you.
It can feel maddening.
You swear that when you have kids, things will be different.
You will understand.
And then, in what seems like an instant, you're the grown-up.
You've got your own kids.
It's your turn to be in charge.
And somehow, along the way, you've forgotten that promise that you made to yourself.
You find yourself caught up in that same intergenerational tension that you once swore to avoid.
In this episode in our series on happier parenting,
I'm talking with someone who's trying to break that cycle by changing the way adults and kids communicate.
Hi, I'm David Yeager.
I'm a developmental psychologist and the author of the book 10 to 25.
David's book explores the science of how to motivate young people effectively.
And his effective strategy begins with understanding the kids in our life, which admittedly is hard,
not only because we've forgotten what it's like to be a child,
but also because it can feel like kids today are speaking an entirely different language.
We have four kids and two teenagers and, you know,