Raising Greener Teens

Are you a parent to a teenager? For most parents, the teenage years can be the most challenging. Parenthood will make the best of us rethink our fundamental values and question our preconceived beliefs. Raising the Greener Teen is a podcast that provides parents with a better understanding of the problems that arise when raising teenagers.

Our host Manda Aufochs Gillespie, the author of Green Mama & Green Mama-to-be, and creator of the award-winning website thegreenmama.com, brings research, real-world advice from experts, and a lot of humour to help you become experts in parenting teenagers. Join Manda, and occasionally her teenage and preteen daughters, as they ask the experts: Is this the way it’s supposed to be?

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Episodes

EP#09: Youth-Driven Environmentalism with Kyle Empringham

Raising Greener Teens is a part of the EcoParent Podcast Network: https://www.ecoparent.ca/podcasts I’m your host Manda Aufochs Gillespie and this is the Raising Greener Teens podcast. Where we as parents take all the curiosity, self-empowerment, and other parenting tools that got us this far and apply them to understanding our teenagers better and hopefully shepherd them to becoming curious, self-empowered, caring and courageous citizens of the future. On Today’s episode I interview author, pod...

Aug 10, 2022•48 min

EP#08: How the Ancient Wisdom of Ayurveda Can Support Today’s Modern Families and Teenagers with Muneera Wallace

Raising Greener Teens is a part of the EcoParent Podcast Network: https://www.ecoparent.ca/podcasts About the Episode: IN this episode Muneera shows us how the Ancient wisdom of Ayurveda can provide guidance for supporting today’s modern teenager. Ayurveda examines health and systems through an understanding of the five elements and the way they combine in three dosas: Vata, Pitta, and Kapha. Each individual will have their own primary dosha and there are different times of day, year, and a life...

Jul 27, 2022•1 hr 1 min

EP#07: Greening Your Teen with Sustainably Geeky

Raising Greener Teens is a part of the EcoParent Podcast Network: https://www.ecoparent.ca/podcasts About the Episode What does the everyday environmentalist think about what it takes these days to raise teenagers to be the future citizens the world needs. What’s important for parents, aunties and uncles, and others to consider when we go to these years beyond the days of parental control and move more towards influencing future adults. If your teenager wants more, but doesn’t want to listen to ...

Jun 08, 2022•1 hr 4 min

EP#06: Busting Common Myths about Teenagers, Sex, and Birth Control with Fertility Friday’s Lisa Hendrickson Jack

May 09, 2022•52 min

EP#05: Everything Below the Waist with Author Jennifer Block

Raising Greener Teens is a part of the EcoParent Podcast Network: https://www.ecoparent.ca/podcasts I’m your host Manda Aufochs Gillespie and this is the Raising Greener Teens podcast, where we as parents take all the curiosity, self-empowerment, and other parenting tools that got us this far and apply them to understanding our teenagers better and hopefully shepherd them to becoming curious, self-empowered, caring and courageous citizens of the future. In this episode I interview author Jennife...

Apr 11, 2022•51 min

EP#04: Inside the Red Tent with Janine Mila

Raising Greener Teens is a part of the EcoParent Podcast Network: https://www.ecoparent.ca/podcasts About the Episode: Help your teen tap into the potential of the menstruating body. Traditional Chinese Medicine educator and Feminine Rhythms instructor Janine Mila guides us through the physiology and psychology of the menstrual cycle and how to support and work with its potential. What are the myths that teenagers today still face when it comes to embracing bodies that bleed? And what is at stak...

Feb 21, 2022•1 hr 3 min

EP#03: Holistic and Effective Acne Care with Caralyn Hale

Raising Greener Teens is a part of the EcoParent Podcast Network: https://www.ecoparent.ca/podcasts About the Episode: What is acne and how can you treat it while also improving your overall health? In this episode Caralyn Hale helps explain where a teenager (or anyone) struggling with acne can get started to help heal and stop breakouts. She explains what a healthy skin routine looks like, how to find the right products and insure you aren’t destroying your skin barrier. She goes on to also loo...

Feb 14, 2022•46 min

EP#02: Teens and the Social Dilemma with Hayley Newell

Raising Greener Teens is a part of the EcoParent Podcast Network: https://www.ecoparent.ca/podcasts About the Episode: Social Media is changing the teenage brain and interfering with the work a teenager must do to prepare for their future selves, but teens are also more dependent on social media than ever. What can a parent (and teen) do? In this episode Hayley Newell explains how the teenage years are the time for individuation where teens go from relying on an outside authority to an internal ...

Feb 14, 2022•49 min

EP#01: What is a Teen? with Dr. Erin TeWinkel, ND

Raising Greener Teens is a part of the EcoParent Podcast Network: https://www.ecoparent.ca/podcasts About the Episode: What is a teen? Dr. Erin TeWinkel gets us started in our query of understanding the needs and possibilities of the teenage years by helping us understand what’s happening inside the teenage brain. She explains how hormones aren’t as much to blame as many of us think, and realistic ways that parents can help support the teenage years while also getting out of the way. Perhaps mos...

Feb 14, 2022•1 hr 7 min

Trailer

Trailer episode for the Raising Greener Teens podcast. Part of the EcoParent Podcast Network (EPN).

Jan 14, 2022•56 sec