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Parenting Pointers: Helping Our Teens

Motherhood Moments

Besides the unprecedented rise in suicidal behavior, the report shared other grim findings on sexual violence, substance misuse, depression, and other mental health woes. You wouldn’t think of not nourishing your child’s physical health with regular meals. The same goes for nourishing their mental health.

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Parenting Pointers: Promoting Emotional Readiness for the Workplace

Motherhood Moments

Their responses were disheartening, to say the least: 51 percent said they needed help for mental health problems in the past year. 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.”

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Free Kindle Books: Lost and Found, Stories of Christmas, The Thanksgiving Mail Order Bride & More

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Amazon Kindle has some of the bestselling novels now for FREE! Download: 600 Aromatherapy Recipes for Beauty, Health & Home by Beth Jones. The TWO opening novels from New York Times bestseller Maggie Shayne’s TWO most popular series! Grab your copy before the price changes! Download: The Awkward Owl by Shawnda Blake.

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Healthy Habits: The Mayo Lab Podcast with David Magee

Motherhood Moments

We must guide a generation of young people who battle a perfect storm of dangers: drug misuse, mental health struggles, social media overload, intense academic pressures, a grim economy, and a precarious future. And with so many experts out there in so many areas—parenting, addiction, mental health—it’s hard to know where to start.

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Smart Safety: Release Recovery Podcast

Motherhood Moments

It’s a recipe for disaster, says Zac Clark, founder and CEO of Release Recovery , a substance use disorder and mental health organization based in New York that offers transitional living, case management, interventions, and other recovery and family support services. This is a great start,” concludes Clark.

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