 Everyone welcome to our first official video podcast Program discussion will come up with a better name for it as soon as we come up with a better name for it in This podcast we are going to have a conversation About this week's featured program and we'll we hope you will join us with a comment below I am Adam Novus, and I'm joined by Liz Wade Liz. How are you? I'm good, Adam. Uh, well, you know, I had my birthday a few weeks ago Not a few weeks ago. It was a few days ago. What was I thinking? Maybe it just feels like a few weeks ago. Yeah so yeah, I had my my birthday and You know, that's always like a fun time to celebrate. Yeah Do you have any traditions around your birthday that you got to you? Maybe you had to alter this year because of Normally We we go to we go out to dinner, which is okay, you know something we really enjoy doing We really enjoy going to restaurants as a family Sometimes I just go with my husband But this year We have decided really we're just staying in we might get yeah, you know, I mean like we might get takeout instead of going out Yeah, yeah, yeah but Yeah, this year we just We just stayed in nice and did you are you expecting? Do you have like these does does your husband always get you something did he get you something this year or? Gifts are a big part of birthdays. Well when you get my age, which I'm a little older than you sometimes gift-giving is Less less of a big deal than when you're a child. Did these gifts part of your birthday tradition? Yes To be honest normally my mother-in-law gets me the best gift She just always is very thoughtful But yeah, I did get a few gifts this year just little small things to like mess around with on my desk during During you know zoom meetings or whatever I'm nothing really big really the big thing is just like going out to dinner or you know Finding ways to celebrate you. Yeah, exactly Yep. Well, that's great well, and this episode we are gonna talk about life and growing and getting older and the program is Called I am horrible Remember oh tips for healthy teenage years. It's part of a series that I wrote about well, it's tips for healthy teenagers Adam, okay Well, so it's part of a series. Yes, it's part of a series on tips for healthy living a healthy life And I don't think they're all released yet. Is that correct? I mean that depends on when you're watching this video I suppose but we've had we've had tips for a healthy pregnancy Tips for a healthy first year Tips for healthy childhood and now this is the fourth program tips for healthy teenagers and we have two more coming up tips for Living a healthy adult life. I think we're recovering from injury because you know when you when you get old when you get old Yeah, a lot of injuries. Yeah, um and tips for Healthy living or aging well aging well, so when you know as you get older and older different You did you need different things at different stages? Yes. I think the teenage years are Very I think teen so teenage years, let me let me clarify when we say teenager that comes from the number system 13 Through 19, so if those numbers that end in teen we call those teenagers the teen years and I think people in that age are very funny and very fascinating now. I know not Everyone does so Liz. I'm gonna ask you. How do you feel about? the teenage years either you can answer that about your own teenage years or Maybe interacting with with teenagers Okay, so Adam, we've known each other a long time. Yes, you know a lot about me Do you think you already know the answer to this question? I would guess That you find teenagers annoying Yes, I do I I I mean everyone is great right in a different way But as a general idea like I don't want to I don't want to say like if you're a teenager watching this Video right now like oh Liz hates me. That is not true Teenagers but um it has a general rule. I think that teenagers are full of drama Yes, I just can't so you got it. You got to explain to maybe people. Yeah We're learning English. What do you mean by drama? So drama is usually a word used for like Like plays, right? It's a it's a play that you put on a drama that you put on It's a lot of acting and so but when you use that in a social situation, it's So here is some drama, right? Did you hear that that? This guy is going out with that girl. Oh, like I'm gonna I'm gonna go and break them up and like Oh, he broke up with me like that sort of stuff That's all drama and I am not interested in drama Even when like when I because I watch a lot of TV. I I do I love as we all do but I Can't even stand watching like teen dramas or like teen shows TV shows Yeah So if it's a TV show that centers on like teen issues about who's dating who and who broke up with whatever and what? Their parents may or may not let let them do I will yeah, what? Oh parents are the worst I will not watch those shows. I hate those shows So let me make the case of why and one second Okay, I also wanted to answer your other question about about whether I liked the teen years Okay, I did not I did not like my own teen years high school was the worst So there's an answer to both of your questions So I will admit my own teen years were a mixed bag as well like it's it's a time of huge transition and Figuring out who you are or who you want to be and this is why I like being I did not like my own teenage years I don't know many people who do unless you're Really like everybody loves you and you're beautiful and you're the captain of the football team Yeah, even then I'm skeptical. I'm skeptical that they maybe but what I think is is so fun is to watch teenagers Try out different personalities like hmm. Oh this year. I'm gonna be really into anime And it's gonna be like my thing and then the next year. I'm gonna wear hats That's gonna be my thing. I'm gonna be the person who wears hats Or I'm gonna be the person who wears all black and I'm Listen to really sad music and I'm going to just I don't care about anything But and then they just they get to try on and so and they really that annoys you doesn't it? I find that irritating like I'm just like just be a normal person But they've got to work through those they've got a try. Okay, Liz You've got to tell me Did you ever have a phase where you're like I'm going to always braid my hair like I'm gonna always Do that. I'm gonna I'm gonna wear a certain brand of shoe and that's gonna be my thing You've never had I guess I guess my thing was wearing very Loud interesting clothing. There you go See, you're you don't I wouldn't I would not have guessed that about you. Yeah, I know I know I got really boring after college Now I just wear like dark green and jeans. Yeah Black and jeans. I I had it where I thought Like I would wear converse all-stars shoes those canvas You know, you can look them up online if you don't know what they are But they're super uncomfortable for my feet I have short wide feet and they're long shoes So I would have that much room in the toe, but I thought like this is what cool people wear So I wore them and I'm a cool person No, I I I did not like I would not go back if you said hey, you can go back in time and be a teenager again Oh No way. No, no, okay. So here's a question for our listeners I would love to know if you would go back in time and be a teenager again Oh, if you answer yes to that you have to tell us why yeah, yeah I would love to hear What your reasons are either way like if you would never go back to being a teenager or if you definitely would I will tell you I do not want to go back to being a teenager Not only because I hate the drama of it, but because of course I was hit by a car at 15 well, maybe if you went back you could jump out of the way or not cross the road So yeah, I guess I could jump out of the way So, you know, I had a lot of a lot of recovery Physical recovery that happened during those years as well. So yeah, well that does also I did like, you know in school like I had the crutches So I was like the girl who got hit by a car You know the boys the girl who was hit by a car and wears crazy clothes Yeah, so yeah, anyway, yeah right in the comments below I would love to hear what you have to say. Yeah Well, I know you're you didn't choose to get hit by a car But a lot of people in the teenage years and this is touched on in the program Do risky behavior And that is part of your your brain chemistry. You think that nothing can hurt you Like you really believe that nothing bad will ever happen to you. You just okay So I just want to point out Adam. We also have another program about that About teenage behavior, which oh, yeah, this program or you want to learn more about teenagers There is that program that talks specifically about why are teenagers acting this way? Yeah, if you haven't come across that program, it's it's a very interesting one Even if you're a teen you might help you but also if you're an adult Wanting to understand a teenager it could be really helpful Yeah, so this so I think when I look back at my own life I loved to like make a ramp and Like ride my bike over it Like out of like a cinder block and a 2x4, which isn't like, you know, I wasn't Doing drugs or anything, but it was still in that like be like if my kids did that now I'd be like whoa That's not safe Yeah, but I think sometimes as a parent I think like, you know what? I know you need to do that for your development I just can't be aware of it because of course like I have a child who is about to enter his teen years exactly and Yeah, you know, sometimes we get glimpses of that. Yeah, but sometimes I'm just like, okay You have to do that but Yeah, so I I gave My daughters my son didn't want one, but I gave my daughters a pocket knife. They each have a pocket knife And you can cut yourself with a pocket knife, right? But yeah as a kid I would take the pocket knife and like throw it into the dirt or try to throw it into a tree and Sometimes it would bounce off the tree and come back at me, but you have to like find ways healthy ways of Exploring the world and doing those things so yeah So far they haven't hurt themselves too bad, but Yeah Soon they'll be driving a car, right builds character. Yeah. Oh driving a car. I'm not ready for that Other parents in the comments if you have a kid who has learned how to drive a car How do you do it or or even just a motorbike, right? Even a motorbike who has entered entered? like traffic That's a I'm not ready. That is a hurdle that neither you nor I have crossed over yet, but it's not far. Yeah Yeah well See so the other thing that struck me in this program was Was the kind of food? like okay, so they're growing right and They're Yeah, their bodies are changing. They're growing. It's and they need so much food to Yeah, to maintain that right I remember as a teen I did eat a lot and I could eat whatever I wanted Oh, yeah, and it Yeah, like half a pizza. I could eat half a pizza. Oh Yeah, and just be like, oh, yeah, that's just what I ate And then I would be hungry again in you know, I'd have another meal I think there were days like regularly. I would have four or five what I would consider now full meals. Yeah It was yeah, yeah, I can't eat like that anymore. No, and I shouldn't have eaten All the well, maybe if it was healthy food at I'm like I know like vegetables. Yeah, that's what I did I ate apples and carrots That's no, they're good. I didn't I ate oh chips Chips and and whatever else I could find really macaroni and cheese out of a Hill, I know Yeah, that's the other thing so good choices. I will I will say I did want to end by saying that one of the themes that rant runs through all of these programs is At various stages of our life, we need different things maybe for our bodies like we need more food as a baby or as a Teenager than we do when you're 70 years old But we all need Kind of love and acceptance of who we are of where we are in our growth in our development so You know Liz, you know just because you're another year older doesn't mean you don't need that you're like Done growing that you're done changing that you you know You can you don't need love and acceptance that at whatever age you might be at right? Yep Yeah, yeah, that's a that's a strong part at the end where you know, we talk about like Parents have a really big role to play in in teen years, right just to not not to not to You know you can stop risky behavior and stuff like that, but also just to say to tell the teens Like hey, you know what you're changing. It's normal. Everyone feels this way And even if the teen isn't listening because right, you know teens also Generally don't want to listen and they think they're right all the time But parents can just assure them that it's normal. Yeah, and that the parents will be there for them You know no matter what? Yeah. Yeah Well anything else you want to add about this program Liz otherwise, um, I don't think so We hope you've enjoyed this this little discussion We hope that it's kind of taken that the program that you listen to to the next level again check out that Teenage dangerous what it's not dangerous behavior risky behavior teenage teenage behavior teenage behavior So be sure to subscribe to us and click the little bell give us a thumbs up like on this video That would helps other people find us And you'll be alerted when we have a new video and you can also find our All these programs on our website. I want to make sure I get all these Liz on YouTube Twitter And Facebook and Facebook. Yeah, Facebook. Well, yeah, so Join us again and leave a comment about What you were like as a teenager and if you would go back and do it again if you could Thanks everyone