There’s a resilience crisis brewing and our kids are in the thick of it. Change is an expected part of modern life and the ability to cope with it an important aspect of good mental health. Helping our kids build resilience is an important part of parenting them. Sometimes the word “resilient” is a bit …
Early teen
We are facing a mental health crisis. Young adults and teens are becoming more anxious, depressed, suicidal and lonely than ever before. Depression rates among teens have been increasing since the early 2000s. A 2018 national survey found that 13.3 per cent of U.S. adolescents experienced a major depressive episode in the last year. But it’s …
A few years ago when, not coincidentally, my oldest was in Year 9, I made a meme for the Mumlyfe Facebook page: It’s our most shared, most commented on, most liked, most talked about meme ever. The truth has a way of uniting us all. A mum messaged me this week to thank me for …
Nothing frustrates me more as a mother than my ungrateful teens. Nothing. I can take the backchat (mostly). I can weather the get-off-your-screen storm (generally). I can even hold fort when the tantrumy shit hits the fan (regularly). But I cannot, I will not, overcome their complete distain for all that I do, all that …
We love it when our kids want to hang out and be social. We don’t love it when they have to spend ridiculous amounts of money to have fun with friends. Every now and then it’s great to go to a water park, shopping, laser tag, eating fast food or seeing a movie, but not …
Critical thinking skills for kids are considered crucial for problem solving and effective decision making. In fact, critical thinking may be the most important skill our kids can develop. It’s not enough to know things. We need to be able to independently make sense of what we know, question the objectivity of the information we …