45. The Challenges and Benefits of Parenting in Midlife

Tess Connolly LCSW talks about parenting in midlife with tween and teens 

• Tess shares her experience about parenting in midlife and what life is like being an older parent and parenting a tween and shares examples of other parents around her that are also parenting in midlife and the challenges older parents face. 
• Tess acknowledges and bears witness to parents that are parenting in midlife. 
• Tess touches on the fact that we may also be at the time where we are going through a midlife crisis and shares with us what she has gone through in her midlife years so far. 
• Tess talks about preparations that she feels the need to make being an older Mom and discusses the challenges we face as we are going through the changes of reaching our midlife while our tweens/teens are going through hormonal changes and making the shift in their own age. 
• Tess shares with us about the benefits of parenting in midlife and how the life experiences we can bring to the table can be of a real benefit to bringing up our tweens and teens.

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