Parenting for the Future

Studies have shown that 69-90% of us will experience at least one serious traumatic event during our lifetimes. The sudden death of a loved one. A debilitating illness. A natural disaster. War. What differentiates us? How we respond; how resilient we are. Our guest today has found that extremely resilient people share the 10 attributes we discuss in this episode. As we reflect on t

On October 24, 2023 a bipartisan coalition of 32 US. Attorneys Generals filed a Federal lawsuit against Meta alleging that the company knowingly designed and deployed harmful features at Instagram, Facebook, and its other social media platforms to induce young children and teenagers into addictive and compulsive social media use contributing significantly to a youth mental health c

There are over 300,000 transgender children under 13 years of age in the United States.and every single one of them is under attack. Join me in conversation with Jodie Patterson, former Chair of the Human Right Campaign Foundation Board, author, activist and mom to a transgender child where we explore the transformative privilege of parenting transgender children and why fighting f

“Some of issues parents expected to confront when their child was in their early twenties. have been pushed later. I think it's safe to say that many parents expected to still be providing some financial assistance to their child when their child was in their early twenties. Don't think that many parents expected to be doing it when their child was 30, and I think that from the

" The truth is Congress has so completely failed. They Haven't passed a Privacy law since Mark Zuckerberg was in diapers. It’s pathetic. Shame on them! This has reshaped everybody's lives, and they just sat there, and because of their political partisanship, the fact There's not a federal privacy, law, or Laws regulating social media platforms is a joke. Absolute abject failure o

'When I work with the athletes and talk about toolboxes, I think helping them build tool belts that give them the arsenal. So when? Not if but when the headwind blows. Oh, I got this! I have agency over my destiny. I get to decide what's next for me, (remove Petal's sound) Yes, I'm gonna need help along the way and support, of course, but I'm not gonna let any setback, not making t

"Complex care typically refers to the children at the very tip, who are the sickest and the book is really written to be more, all inclusive, because many children, while they may not be complex, they have chronic health conditions which cause a lot of increased work for their families. " Director of Pediatrics at the Atria Institute in New York City Education/Degree: BA, Harvard

“The ability to introspect to work through problems. This is one of the reasons we are so successful as a species. The ability to introspect is how we learn from our problems and plan for the future is what allows us in part to build spaceships that literally land SUVs nowadays on other planets like Mars. but, on the other hand, people struggle enormously with introspection to th

"Well, if we break money down to its simplest components, right? And how we handle it, what do we do with our money. We really do 3 things right. We spend it. we save it, we give it away. And if you think about what actually goes into the decisions around each of those you know. They're all about emotions and behaviors. spending is about modesty and prudence and thrift, or it's abo

"A third of the young people who come to us feel like it's unclear to them how to affect change. And so our goal has to be start small, start with the things that are accessible that you can actually do today, whether that's educating yourself or taking a first volunteer action. And then that portal can be a way to level up engagement so that you get to do more and more over time.�