

My daughter and I, for instance, listen to My Favorite Murder together, and we’re hooked. You might want to vet the podcasts first you might not. So share this mildly controversial list at your own peril. It will, however, be a list of podcasts approved by actual, real-life, breathing, Tik Tok-ing, media-ingesting teens. So, if you’re hoping for a carefully vetted list to please helicopter parents and all the Karens and Beckys of the mom world, well, this will not be that list. Don’t write about podcasts teens expect their parents to recommend for them.” Point duly noted. She offered up some themes - and some advice: “Murder is good,” she said. My 18-year-old, however, is a podcast fan. “Mom,” my 16-year-old said, “you know teenagers don’t listen to podcasts, right?” Oof. So when my editor asked me to write about the best podcasts out there for teens, I thought, no problem!īut then I asked my two teen daughters what podcasts they like.

But hey, I’ve got four teens at the moment, and two kids working their way towards adolescence as we speak. Podcasts are a great way for parents and teens to connect … if you can pry the Air Pods out of their hands, that is.
