Jumping off a cliff because your friends are going to? Maybe, just maybe, it’s not always a bad thing for our teens.
Rush, Hazing, Burnout, and Self-Care?
A while back, I wrote a letter to my teen about beating burnout and becoming more productive. Where the message was driven home for her? Her college’s fraternity rush and hazing. (Yes, you read that correctly.) Reminder to my adult…
Take A Break
Recently Lexie shared some thoughts on the usefulness of taking a break. Yes, that fondness for Netflix may be more useful than my adult self has thought! Today we’ve got another teen’s take on the importance of taking a break,…
Netflix: Teacher of Useful Skills
Times of stress happen — shit hits the fan sometimes. And perhaps, just perhaps, a useful way forward may be to quit trying to force ourselves out of the space and instead take a little while to numb out/procrastinate before…
Hello 16: Love Notes to Self
My beautiful stepdaughter is 16. People warned me this would happen. Whoa. Not a child and yet not quite an adult. Starting to drive. Midway through high school. Stretching into life. An interesting age. I got to thinking about some of…