How to handle know-it-all teenagers

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]I'm wondering if you could offer any advice on having conversations with teenagers. I'm a grandmother of a teenager and I spend quite a bit of time with him and I find him sometimes to be like a know-it-all.

[00:00:18]>> Of course, he's going to be a know-it-all. He's a teenager. What I can tell you when he says something like, "You don't understand. You don't understand, Grandma." Instead of you going, "Yeah, I do understand." or thinking, "No, you don't understand."

[00:00:30]You take the position of, "You're right.

[00:00:32]I don't understand. I don't understand.

[00:00:34]You're going to know things that I don't know, and this is a world that I I didn't grow up in. You're right. I don't I don't understand." So, you're kind of taking this more of a position of just choosing to love him for who he is and knowing who he's going to be. You being the model and a safe place for him to make the mistakes is probably going to do more for him than anything else I could give Yeah.