At Birch Wathen Lenox, The Kids are Waving Goodbye to their Comfort Zones
Take your pick: Covid. Phones. The culture of fear. The crazy world we live in. No matter what is to blame, something has been sapping kids of their can-do spirit....
A front-page article in The Wall Street Journal described the difficulty – even agony – some parents are feeling when their kids go off to college and are harder to...
“What if the ways in which we are parenting are making life harder on our kids and harder on us? What if by doing less, parents would foster better outcomes for...
Surgeon General Finds Parents Overwhelmed. We Have a Solution.
Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has issued an advisory announcing something most of us suspected: Parenting is hard. To ease the pain – parents are woefully lonely, and about half report...
Child Protective Services: Close The Case on Kirstie Allsopp!
The big news in Britain is that TV personality Kirstie Allsopp let her 15-year-old go on a 3-week train trip around Europe with a friend, 16. Kirstie then published a...
The moment a baby is born, a parent is too. There is suddenly a new (screaming) person in the world. But just as suddenly, there’s a new you, too. (Also...
Maybe you remember a time you scared yourself as a kid. You climbed higher than you expected, or went further into the forest, or agreed to a dare. Believe it...
Feel guilty because you don't love playing with your kids? You are not alone, and you are not a Grinch! Many parents -- and entire cultures -- feel the same...
Our culture tells us to streamline our kids for college. But actually, we need to diversify their potential by allowing more time for quirky interests, not just "resume building."
“Independence Therapy” Could Revolutionize Anxiety Treatment for Kids
A child psychologist who had his patients do new things on their own, without their parents found that this "Independence Therapy" worked faster than traditional treatments for kids with a...
Anxious College Students Are Eating Alone in their Rooms. Let Grow May Have a Solution
Today's college students are so anxious, 40% won't even eat in the dining hall. What has made their social anxiety to acute? Maybe growing up with too few chances to...
