Bullying is a growing problem. We worry about our child becoming a victim and don’t want them to be hurt and embarrassed. As parents if we find out our kid is being bullied we do everything we can to get it to stop. But what if you don’t know it’s happening? And what if the emotional pain doesn’t go away when it stops? On today’s episode of the Mighty Parenting Podcast, Judy Davis and [...]
We hear a lot of frustrated and worried parents commenting on the way kids handle, or rather can’t handle disappointment. From not being able to buy the gadget they want, not making the team or getting a bad grade, to not achieving 1st chair in orchestra or getting praise from their boss, teens and college students are struggling with disappointment and failure. In this episode of the Mighty [...]
It’s common to hear college students joking about pulling all-nighters and drinking truly unwise amounts of caffeine to get through classes and clubs and survive that one irritating professor who likes assigning ten-page papers every week. However, this trend of increasingly sleep deprived teenagers is not limited to college students alone; in 2018, the CDC declared a global public health [...]