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Ep 37. Your Parenting Teens Strategy 101: Creating the Ecosystem Your Teen Needs to Thrive

In today’s episode, I’m sharing about the seven foundational pillars that make up the ecosystem your teenager needs to grow, thrive, and stay connected to you through one of the most complex seasons of their development. This isn’t just a parenting strategy episode. It’s also about you, your nervous system, your emotional patterns, and the environment you’re creating every single day in your home, often without even realizing it.

Here’s what we cover:

Point 1: You’re the Soil, Not the Sculptor

Point 2: Your Nervous System is the Weather in Your Home

Point 3: Breaking Generational Patterns

Point 4: Connection Before Correction

Point 5: Learning to Tolerate Uncertainty

Point 6: The Sweet Spot Between Friend and Parent

Point 7: The Permission to Be an Imperfect Parent

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Kerrick Gooden

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Kerrick was raised in the Hill Country of Austin, Texas where he studied at the University of Texas. After some travel, he moved to the Rogue Valley of Oregon with a vision to farm and support youth. He completed his Bachelor’s of Science in Applied Cultural Anthropology with Honors in 2004 at Southern Oregon University, and devoted over a decade supporting youth and their families navigate  local and state social service programs. During this time, he and his partner cultivated a food forest at their home and founded Verdant Phoenix as an educational mini-farm in 2016.

Verdant Phoenix Farm became an expression of a way of life for Kerrick. He is interested in the relationships between humans, soil, microbes, plants/trees/shrubs, food, culture, time, and the web of life. As these elements inform his horticultural practice, Kerrick enjoys supporting landscapes, gardens, farms, and their people who are interested in belonging to the land.