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Parenting Pointers: Helping Our Teens

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Educate yourself.) The idea is to offer research-based insights and guidance to equip not just parents but also educators and students to start a different conversation in their own lives,” says Magee. “If The question is, regardless of gender, how do you reach your teens? Magee offers a few tips: First, get the lay of the land.

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Parenting Pointers - What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Children on Social Media

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Parents and educators see the damaging effects of social media up close every day. Help them get involved in an extracurricular activity or with a volunteer organization so they can meet new people and have in-person interactions. If they are old enough, encourage them to get a part-time job.

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Parenting Pointers: Promoting Emotional Readiness for the Workplace

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In his book, Magee builds a compelling case that smartphones and their associated apps “have more to do with the mental health and substance misuse epidemic than most parents and educators can conceive.” Smartphone usage in young people is linked to everything from substance misuse to eating disorders to sleep deprivation.

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Healthy Habits: The Mayo Lab Podcast with David Magee

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Parents and educators are beyond overwhelmed. This weekly program—which kicked off February 28—will serve as a single source of research-based guidance for parents, educators, and students. There are so many voices coming from so many perspectives that parents and educators can’t process the message. So are deaths by suicide. (In

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Smart Safety: Release Recovery Podcast

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Clark is also the founding board member of the Release Recovery Foundation , a nonprofit whose mission is to remove financial barriers to treatment for underserved communities through DEI and LGBTQIA+ scholarships, to educate Americans about lifesaving tools like NARCAN, and to build community to break the stigma around addiction and mental health.

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