Talking To Teens: Expert Tips for Parenting Teenagers

Andy Earle hosts Talking To Teens, and he treats each episode as a 30-something-minute crash course on whatever subject is making parents lose sleep that week. Andy is a researcher by background, and you can hear it in the booking: most guests are authors of recent books, psychologists, or researchers running active studies on adolescents. The result is a show that rarely feels like advice recycled from the blog-o-sphere. One week it's social media addiction and dopamine cycles, the next it's anxiety, gender identity, college prep pressure, risk-taking, sibling warfare, or the specific brand of stubborn silence teenagers deploy in the passenger seat. Andy's interview style is low-key and genuinely curious. He pushes back when guests oversimplify and asks the follow-up questions a parent actually wants answered. New episodes drop weekly, and the back catalog is huge, which makes it a handy library to search when you're mid-crisis looking for context on a specific issue. This isn't the right fit if you want feel-good parenting affirmations. It is the right fit if you want a well-researched conversation you can listen to on a long drive and end up with two or three things you want to try when you get home.