Blended Family Podcast

melissa@blendedfamilypodcast.com www.blendedfamilypodcast.com Dr. Jennifer Wider is a women's health expert, author and radio host who frequently appears on television shows including the Today Show, CBS News, and ABC News Nightline.  She is the author of 4 books including her most recent: Got Teens, the Doctor Moms' Guide to Sexuality, Social Media and Other Adolescent Realities, w/ Dr. Logan Levkoff.  She is a medical adviser to Cosmopolitan Magazine and has written hundreds of articles for a variety of publications.  But of out of all of these, her best accomplishments are her 3 children: ages 13, 9 and 4.   In this interview, we focus on teenagers and discuss the importance of open communication and how to achieve it changes in their personality managing different rules and structure from home to home how blended families can bond with angsty teenagers how stepparents can bond with teenage stepchildren social media and cell phone contracts peer pressure sex and drugs some listener quest