Here’s the video from my guest spot on the ABC News “Moms Get Real” show this week, with Juju Chang and Romi Lassaly from True Mom Confessions. The topic was drugs and kids, and as a guest panelist, I discussed the VERY significant ways my views on parenting teenagers has evolved over time, based on having now seen one child to the age of 18.
I plan to write a lengthy, detailed blog post on this very soon (maybe over at TMC as a guest blogger), but for now, you can watch what I have to say on th show, should you have any interest. If you don’t have any interest in watching it, here’s the thumbnail version: just imagine washed out Katie, without enough lipstick or cheek color (NOTE TO SELF: MORE MAKE-UP FOR ON-AIR APPEARANCES! WAY MORE.), explaining that she sure wishes she had been stricter with Child #1, and more intrusive and bossy, and that she intends to be far more intrusive, bossy and mean with Children 2,3,4 during the high school years. Imagine that, and no need to watch the video 
5 Responses to “Talkin’ drugs with Juju Chang”
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It sounds so simple.
I know your being glib, there is NO recipe for creating teens who deal well with adolescence. As much as popular parenting ideals try to make us believe there is, it’s not so simple. Some kids get through their adolescence okay and it all looks good on the outside, then fall apart in college/young adulthood. You never know!
Being stricter, authoritarian, intrusive, and bossy with children 2,3,4 during the high school years could create other problems.
Family brain chemistry, addiction, trauma, social circumstances, you know that life is filled with stuff that teen can not cope with, and it all blossoms in the later adolescent years.
Circumstances in family life change and it affects your child.
In my experience they push back no matter how present, involved and strict you are.
I really do know the difference between your and you’re.
I type too fast & hit submit!
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You were great! And you didn’t look washed out at all. (AM I the only one who giggled at the names Juju and Romi?)
You WERE great. and i thought what you said made a lot of sense. you’re a gem, Katie.
@Catherine: i’m with you. professional journalist? juju?
Great interview Katie! I just kept thinking…you don’t look old enough to have an 18 year old!