What do our kids really need from us in the hardest moments?

Parenting can stretch you in ways you never expected, from the early years of constant caretaking to the teen years of quiet rooms and closed doors. And somewhere in between, you're trying to hold it all together while figuring out what's actually working and what isn't.

In this episode, I'm joined by Arathi Shekhat, a marriage and family therapist who works with couples, teens, and adolescents at her Jupiter, Florida practice. Arathi is married to a child psychiatrist, and together they're raising three kids of their own, so she brings both the clinical lens and the lived-in honesty of a mom in the thick of it.

Arathi and I talk about what's happening in the teen brain when your kid goes quiet, why screen limits belong on the device itself instead of in the daily conv ...