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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. That’s why he joined with the University of Mississippi’s Thomas Hayes Mayo Lab to create The Mayo Lab Podcast. It’s that we feel so helpless to do anything about it.

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

Motherhood Moments

Murthy says while we don’t yet know the full impact on our young people, there are “ample indicators that social media can also have a profound risk of harm to the mental health and wellbeing of children and adolescents.” Change is long overdue, and Magee says it starts with real conversations with our children. “We Don’t preach.

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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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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.”

Parenting 100
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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. They’re all too aware that you would be upset by these choices.

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50 Best Small-Business Ideas – NerdWallet

Savings Corner

Podcasting For those who have something to say or important stories to tell, you might consider starting a podcasting business. With the popularity of podcasts from newspapers and other media providers, private individuals have been able to jump on the trend—turning a hobby into a fully-fledged business.