Resilience: Why learning what it is like to fail can help youth succeed.
Mobile phones: How to help youth maintain a balanced digital diet to minimize negative mental health effects
How to help youth create a healthy support network to promote their mental wellness.
How parents can help youth develop strength, character and fortitude to face life’s challenges head on.
How to help youth learn the value of competency and feel good about it.
Overparenting: Helpful or harmful? Why doing less is doing more for youth.
Technology use and interpersonal relationships; understanding the importance of teaching youth to find the right balance to support their mental wellness.
The dangers of gaming and its impact on youth mental health; how parents can set limits to support mental wellness.
Technology use and interpersonal relationships; understanding the importance of teaching youth to find the right balance to support their mental wellness.
Overparenting: Helpful or harmful? Why doing less is doing more for youth.
Resilience: Why learning what it is like to fail can help youth succeed.
How to help youth learn the value of competency and feel good about it.
How parents can help youth develop strength, character and fortitude to face life’s challenges head on.
How to help youth create a healthy support network to promote their mental wellness.
In this podcast, Todd and Julie Fisher will discuss why so many kids lack resiliency, which is the ability to cope with adversity and persevere without giving up. They explore how fear and technology have led us to rob our kids of opportunities to learn from their mistakes and succeed on their own. Todd and Julie talk about the creation of The Resiliency Puzzle, a curriculum for parents, educators and other professionals, that centers on learning to make small changes to what we do to encourage more resilient behaviors in our kids. The other episodes in this series will take a more in depth look at the four main pieces of the resiliency puzzle: Relationships; Emotional Skills; Competence; and Optimism.
In this podcast, Todd and Julie Fisher discuss how 21st century relationships differ from those of previous generations and the role that technology plays in that change and its impact on youth mental health. Digital natives are growing up in a world, where for the first time, they are forming relationships with people they’ve never met in real life. They talk, hangout and even date in a virtual world instead of the physical one. Because parents of digital natives grew up communicating largely in real life, there is a disconnect when it comes to understanding the new normal for relationships in the digital age. Todd and Julie discuss when parents should be concerned about relationships kids are forming online and how to set limits so that kids understand that real-world relationships matter more than virtual ones.
In this podcast, Todd and Julie Fisher discuss the importance of support networks in relation to emotional well-being. When we have strong support networks, we are 25% more likely to be happy than when we don’t have people close to us that we can lean on. Todd and Julie discuss why kids need multiple support networks, what they look like for kids, why parents are only one piece of the puzzle, and how parents can help their kids find people in their lives that will support them and be there for them when they need a shoulder to lean on.