When Your Teen Rages: Scripts
How to stay regulated when your teenager is coming at you with everything they have.
This Week’s Scenario
The door comes off its hinges. An object gets thrown. The screaming, the swearing, the threats, the words chosen with surgical precision to find the exact thing that will hurt you most. A disproportionate eruption over something that, from the outside, seems completely minor; a lost game, a chore, a look that landed wrong. And underneath all of it, a teenager who has completely lost access to themselves.
This is outward rage. And it’s what we’re focusing on this week.
LISTEN TO THE COMPANION PODCAST EPISODE FOR THIS GUIDE
When Your Teen Rages: What It Activates In You
In this episode:
1. Why teenage rage is more destabilizing than a younger child’s rage.
2. The three nervous system responses parents have.
3. Why the freeze response is rarely talked about.
4. What happens when two parents have different responses.
5. Why the words your teenager chooses in a rage hurt so much.
6. The question that cuts through everything when things escalate.
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