When Fear Gets in the Way of Love: Diogo Brehm on Vulnerability, Connection & Being Yourself

In the last of our series on transitioning to schools, today I am chatting with Alexis Karasek, a mom whose son just graduated high school. In our other transitioning episodes, we focused on making a one-grade leap. Since high school spans a lot of change maturity wise, today we are talking about your child from 9th-12th. Want more transitioning episodes? Check out our episode on starting elementary school and our episode on middle school. Show Notes * Parenting with Love and Logic * Parenting with Love and Logic for Teens * Are you a lawnmower parent? Here’s a link to the article we talked about if you haven’t seen it. Timestamps * Why talk about high school as a whole instead of just 9th? (3:44) * First two/ last two years of high school (4:47) * Learning to Drive (8:59) * Looking Back with Perspective (11:40) * Bad Decisions (13:52) * Letting your son find himself (17:33) * Personality vs. Parenting (21:59) * Don’t save him (25:40) * Fail and Figure it out (26:51)