Asian American Parenting

In part 4 of the series “What Parenting Does to Parents,” discussing the impact parenting has on parents, Monica and Danny talk about how the struggles of teenagers can activate the anxieties and stressors in the life of parents. They discuss how parenting, for various reasons, might be harder today, and how the stresses of our teenagers can cause stress and anxieties for parents. They also discuss how stress and anxiety on parents can be both good and bad, and what parents can do about their own stress and anxiety that is caused by what they see in their teenagers’ lives.

In part three of the series “What Parenting Does to Parents,” Monica and Danny talk about life before becoming parents and the impact parenting teenagers can have on the life and marriage of parents now. They discuss healthy and unhealthy ways of parenting, which can impact life and marriage positively or adversely. Finally, they discuss ways of reclaiming healthy parenting and marriage.

In part two of this new series, “What Parenting Does to Parents,” Monica and Danny talk about parenting teenagers when your teenager calls you out or talks back to you. This phenomenon contrasts Asian parents’ generation, where children rarely or never talked back, with the world teenagers live in today. Talking back or calling out parents might be the new normal, and so how parents of teenagers respond to it is important.

In this new series from the Asian American Parenting Podcast, we explore issues of raising teenagers from the parents’ perspective and the impact that issues of parenting has on them. This first episode explores co-parenting teenagers and when parents have disagreements in raising teenagers.

In the fifth and final episode of this series on adolescent research, Scripture, and Asian American parenting, Danny and Monica discuss the research regarding teenagers “stacking” negative behaviors and lifestyle choices, which could lead to issues with depression and anxiety. They discuss alternatively both the biblical and lifestyle choices that parents can guide and promote in their teenagers.