Parenting
When Sadness Moves In
How to tell when a child’s sadness may be depression, what it can look like at different ages, and how to get professional help without panicking.
Tag: Teens
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Parenting
Your Teen Isn’t Just Being Dramatic
Teen moodiness, late nights, and hard mornings are often biology meeting modern schedules. Here is a calmer way to support adolescent sleep and mental health.
Pediatric Sleep Disorders & Clinical Sleep Challenges
The Sleep Problem No Routine Can Fix
You've tried every bedtime trick in the book. But not all sleep problems are routine problems. Here's how to tell the difference between behavioral sleep issues and clinical conditions that need a different approach entirely.
Teen Parenting
Middle School Is a Systems Problem. Here's How to Solve It.
Middle school doesn't require perfect parenting — it requires consistent structure. Here's a three-system approach to staying connected with your teen, backed by research on adolescent mental health.
Behavior
You're Telling Your Teen to Put Down Their Phone. While You're on Your Phone. We Need to Talk.
The research on teen social media and depression is genuinely scary -- but so is the moment your kid catches you doomscrolling while lecturing them about doomscrolling. Here's how to parent screens without losing your mind (or your credibility).