Every January 1st many Americans make resolutions about how we are going to be different in the coming year. We plan to exercise more, eat more carefully, stay in touch with our family better, etc. If you’ve listened to episode 22: “New Year…Now What?,” you’ve heard a lot of our advice on this subject. One of the more common resolutions is to drink less alcohol. Maybe you don’t think you are an alcoholic, but perhaps …
In Episode 21: Talking Teen Mental Health, Part III: Advice to Parents, our guest, Natalie Alyssa Sanchez, suggested that parents are sometimes too quick to focus on correcting their teen’s problems, rather than on understanding their feelings. Parents have experienced trouble understanding their adolescents since ancient times. A Babylonian tablet predicted that the world was going to hell because of the next generation. Those Babylonian parents, much like modern ones, complained about how hard it was to …
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