WE'RE IN THIS TOGETHER AS WE NAVIGATE SUCH UNPRECEDENTED TIMES - CONNECT & BE WELL
PARENTING CONVERSATIONS
Books:
- Untamed by Glennon Doyle (2020)
- Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in the Digital Age by Sherry Turkle (2016)
- Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem by Kevin DeYoung (2013) “Valuable advice… Too busy to read this book? Then you really need to.” USA Today
Videos & Podcasts:
- Kids In The House Videos (Denise Pope & Madeline Levine, Challenge Success)
- What First Year College Students Should Know (WebMD, September, 2017)
- Turning Kids into Grown-Ups (TED Radio Hour Podcast, April, 2018)
- How to Raise Successful Kids — Without Over-Parenting (17:58) TED Talk by Julie Lythcott-Haims, former Dean of Freshmen at Stanford
- GenDIY: Emerging Options for Students Navigating Life (Getting Smart Podcast, 2015)
Websites:
- Challenge Success (Stanford's Graduate School of Education)
- Parent Toolkit (NBC News Education Nation)
Articles, Interviews & Blogs:
- "There Is No Map"-Interview with Glennon Doyle (NPR, March 22, 2020)
- Self-Compassion for Parents (Greater Good Science Center, 2018)
- Are Today's Students Really Ready for College, Work and Life? (EdTech-Getting Smart, April 2017)
- Digital Literacy for Digital Natives (Graduate School of Education Harvard, January 17, 2018)
- Why Teenagers Become 'Allergic' to Their Parents (The New York Times, April, 2018)
- The Best Way to Fight With Your Teenager (The New York Times, March, 2018)
- Record Number of College Students Are Seeking Treatment for Depression and Anxiety-Schools Can't Keep Up (Time, March 19, 2018)
- Everyone Is Going Through Something (Kevin Love The Players Tribune, March 6, 2018)
- How To Stop Being A Control Freak (Greater Good Science, February 21, 2018)
- What Adolescents Really Need from Parents (Interview with Ron Dahl for Greater Good Science Center, 2016)
- Can Living in the Moment Make You a Better Parents? (Greater Good Science Center, 2016)
- Parenting Resources for Raising Caring, Ethical Children (Making Caring Common, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
- Why Are More American Teenagers Than Ever Suffering From Severe Anxiety (New York Times, October 11, 2017)
- How Teens Today Are Different From Past Generations (Greater Good Science, October 20, 2017)
- Recruiting Tip: Helicopter Parents, Lawnmower Parents, and Scouting Director Parents (USA Today, 2017)
- What Do Teenagers Want? A Potted Plant For Parent by Lisa Damour (New York Times, December 2016)
- As Teens Push Away, What Can Parents Do To Support Them? (KQED News, 2015)
- How To Avoid Parental Burnout This Holiday Season (Washington Post, November 28, 2017)
- Tips for Communicating With Your Teen Keeping Parent-Child Relationship Strong During This Tricky Time (Child Mind Institute)
- Effective Communication and Teenagers-Reachout Parents (ReachOut Austrialia 2018)
- 5 Simple Tips To Help You Have A Real Conversation With A Teen (Ideas.Ted.Com, January 2018)
- How To Communicate With and Listen to Your Teen (HealthyChildren.org, 2015)
- A Look At Mental Illness In College (Cal Poly, 2017)
- Tips for Parents Talking with Their Children About Suicide and 13 Reasons Why (American Foundation for Suicide Prevention)
- Psychological Approach to Educating Kids (Atlantic, March, 2017) Increased focus on kids’ psychological health may seem like the education world's flavor of the day, but it's achieving results.
- How to Talk About Mental Health Issues (Child Mind Institute): When teens are struggling, speaking up can be hard, but reaching out is the first step to feeling better. How to get started.
TOUGH CONVERSATIONS
Vaping
The Sex Talk
The Sex Talk
News Articles
- How To Talk With Teenagers About Vaping (NYT, 2018)
- Tip Sheet for Parents (Talking About E-Cigarettes)
- Juulers Against Juul (Students Against Nicotine, 6:24 mins)
- Vaping in Schools: ‘Juuling’ Is Popular Among Teens Despite Health Risks (EdWeek, 9:11 mins)
- Helping Teenagers Quit Vaping (NYT, October 2019)
- Quick Facts on the Risks of E-cigarettes for Kids, Teens, and Young Adults (Center for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Includes a Tip Sheet for Parents which offers guidelines and talking points for engaging with teens.
- ‘Very Alarming’ Teen Vaping Study Shows 1 in 5 High School Seniors Reports Having Vaped Nicotine in Previous Month (The 74, Jan., 2019)
- Penn State Applied Research, 2019.
- When Your Child Vapes What’s a Parent To Do (CNN, Jan., 2019)
- Manistee Students Take Charge of Vaping Education (9 and 10 News, Jan., 2019)
- How To Stop Teen Vaping? Make E-Cigarettes Harder to Get (NBC News, Jan., 2019)
- Stopping the Vaping Trend (NYT, Jan., 2019)
- Vaping Among Young People Remains A Burning Issue Among Health Experts (The Guardian, 2019)
- Quit Vaping: E-cigarettes spur nicotine withdrawal, depression, anxiety (USA Today, Dec. 2018)
- Do Teens Need Help Kicking the Vaping Habit? The FDA thinks so (NBC News, Dec. 2018)
- Lawmakers Must Help Curb Teen Vaping (The Seattle Times, Dec. 2018)
- How To Help Your Teen Quit Vaping (NYT, Dec. 2018)
- ‘We’re Losing a Battle’: More Teens Are Vaping, Despite Surgeon General’s Warning That E-Cigarettes Are a ‘Major Public Health Concern’ (The 74, Sept., 2018)
- Youth and Tobacco 2018 Survey Results
- Schools Respond to the Rise of Student Vaping (edutopia, June, 2018)
- Teen Vaping: What You Need to Know (Child Mind)
- The Promise of Vaping and the Rise of Juul (The New Yorker, May 2018). Teens have taken a technology that was supposed to help grownups stop smoking and invented a new kind of bad habit, molded in their own image.
- Debate Will Heat Up In 2019 Over Vaping (Healthline, 2018)
- Teen Vaping Has Created Addicts With Few Treatment Options (Wall Street Journal, 2018)
- Concerns explode over new health risks of vaping (Science News for Students, 2017)
Medical Journal Articles
- 5 Truths You Need to Know About Vaping (Hopkins Medicine)
- Your Teen Is Underestimating the Health Risks of Vaping (Yale Medicine, Dec., 2018)
Videos
- Clearing the air on e-cigarettes (CBS Sunday Morning, 2018, 10:41 mins)
- What are the Potential Dangers of ‘Juul’-ing? (Good Morning America, ABC News, 2018, 3:05 mins)
- The Epidemic Is Spreading (The Real Cost, 2018, :30 secs)
- Inside the Heated Battle Over Juul: Creating Teen Adicts or Saving Lives (NBC News, Oct., 2018, 10:19 mins)
Curriculum
- Catch My Breath, Parent Resources Page. CATCH stands for a Coordinated Approach to Child Health and this program is designed for K-8
The Sex Talk
The Sex Talk
The Sex Talk
News Articles
- The sex talk isn’t enough. How parents can talk to teens about healthy relationships, (The Washington Post, 2017)
- Ivy League researchers released a huge report on teen sex. It's a must-read for parents. (Upworthy, May 18, 2017)
- Parents are getting the “sex talk” all wrong—and not because of the sex part (Quartz, May 2017)
- For Goodness Sex: Changing the Way We Talk to Teens About Sexuality, Values, and Health (Al Vernacchio, 2014)
- How to talk to boys about sexual assault, teaching respect for women: How to teach even the youngest sons to respect girls and understand boundaries—and themselves. (Slate, October, 2018)
- We need to talk to young people about misogyny, sexual harassment, and assault (email that Richard Weissbourd sent and which includes a wealth of resources, October, 2018)
- Beyond ‘no means no’: What most parents aren’t teaching their sons about sexual consent (The Washington Post, October, 2018)
Reports
- The Talk: How Adults Can Promote Young People’s Healthy Relationships and Prevent Misogyny and Sexual Harassment (Making Caring Common, 2017)
- 5 Tips for Parents: Guiding Teens and Young Adults in Developing Healthy Romantic Relationships (Making Caring Common, 2018)
Videos
- Consent is Everything (Consentiseverything.com, 2015, 3 mins)
- Rick Weissbourd - Teens' Romantic Relationships (Making Caring Common, 2016, 3:05 mins)
- Sex- Let’s Talk (Ideas.TED.com, 2015, 6:40 mins)
- Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape (Peggy Orenstein’s Book and TED Talk, 2016/2017, 17:01 mins)
- Some Schools are Rethinking Sex Ed with Lessons on Consent (PBS, July, 2018, 8:00 mins)
NAVIGATING THE COLLEGE ADMISSIONS PROCESS
Articles, Interviews & Blogs:
- When Applying To College, This Character Trait May Mean More Than Grades (Washington Post, September 10, 2018)
- How to Help a Teenager Be College-Ready (New York Times, 2018)
- Opinion | How to Get the Most Out of College (The New York Times, 2018)
- I know my grown children’s struggles aren’t about me. But sometimes I need a reminder (The Washington Post, 2018)
- Seven real-life skills your teenager needs before going away to college (On Parenting Blog, The Washington Post)
Books:
- Escaping the Endless Adolescence: How We Can Help Our Teenagers Grow Up Before They Grow Old by Joseph Allen and Claudia Worrell Allen (2009)
Videos & Podcasts:
- What Were You Thinking: A Podcast by NPR's Dina Temple-Raston about adolescent decision-making and the adolescent brain (start at 4:08 to learn more)