Archive for February 2023

By loading kids with high expectations and micromanaging their lives at every turn, parents aren’t actually helping. At least, that’s how Julie Lythcott-Haims sees it. With passion and wry humor, the former Dean of Freshmen at Stanford makes a case for parents to stop defining their children’s success via grades and test scores. Instead, she…

Nearly three out of five high-school girls in the U.S. who were surveyed reported feelings of persistent sadness or hopelessness in 2021, a roughly 60% increase over the past decade, new research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found. WSJ Link- Teen Girls Experiencing Record Levels of Sadness and Suicide Risk