A brief YouTube #short featuring Robert Whitfield MD and another speaker discussing parental communication with teens about difficult, potentially distressing topics. Speakers emphasize open, transparent relationships so children will reach out to parents; one speaker cites having a 17-year-old and ~15 teenagers at a house gathering as context for the concern.
The, you know, I said I have a 17 year old daughter and I'm just like those types of things are as a parent have absolutely mortifying and you know I feel terrible that young people and their parents, you know obviously have to, to deal with that is very all disturbing. But you got to talk to your kids, you got to have relationships with them and you know, be transparent. You know if they're having trouble like they should feel like. And that's, that's the thing that bugs me is they don't reach out to their parents and then that happens and then it becomes you know obviously very difficult situations. So and.
That'S what My daughter, my 17 year old, she had friends giving at her house so we had about, I don't know, 15 or so kids, teenagers there and that's what she told me after she was like mom, I would go to you with that. And I said well but it could be because I'm so open with a lot of things, just body in general, our bodies and health and she knows I do this.
