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Tools, stories, and science to help you navigate adolescence with more clarity, less panic, and way more joy.
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Why Did You Write That Note? (opens the original)
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When I was 15 I had a not so great “boyfriend.” He was a consolation boyfriend because my friend had won the affection of the boy I really wanted to date, so, in order to stay connected to both my friend and this boy I actually liked, I dated his friend. This was, clearly, not going to end well. As so many young women do, I thought this was the bargain I had to make. That I should just be thankful that someone wanted to date me, and that I should just go along with it because being wanted by som
The Audio Course is Here! (opens the original)
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Sometimes parenting a middle schooler is the most fun thing ever, and sometimes it involves trudging up Fuck You Mountain. Most days it involves a lot of both, with all kinds of other weird shit in between.It can also feel weird, lonely, and embarrassing. When I was a middle school dean a huge part of my job involved calling parents to tell them about something their kid had done that was just down right stupid. And my biggest job on that call was to make sure they parents fully understood that
Your Wellbeing is Not a Side quest (opens the original)
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One of the hardest parts of parenting an adolescent is that it is a season the requires an insane amount of self trust, at the exact moment that trust feels impossible to come by. So much about your kid and your relationship is changing at what feels like warp speed. It is hard to sit in all the new, wobbly moments and confidently say, “it’s cool. I’ve got this,” because the hard stuff suddenly feels a lot bigger. Their emotions show up demanding a lot of attention, the fears about what “this” (
Middle School is Supposed to Be a Fuck Up Factory (opens the original)
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One of my favorite parts of the job, when I was a middle school dean in Brooklyn, was taking parents out for coffee. We were really lucky that there was a cute coffee shop literally 1 door down from the school, so when parents were really anxious about their 6th grader I would just say, “Listen, let’s just grab a coffee” rather than go back and forth over a zillion emails, knowing they were just sitting at home stewing. We’d meet up, they’d dump their anxieties on the table, and we’d sort throug
You’re Pushing on a Pull Door (opens the original)
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You may not be a Noah Kahn fan, but his new album has been on repeat in my earbuds for basically the whole summer. Like, I am sure Spotify is wondering, “is this lady ok?” And, like most fans who are also parents, I have cried listening to The Orbiter more than once. It’s a beautiful song in general, but takes on even more eye watering tendencies because he has shared that it is, in part, about his Mom being the loving constant in his life who serves as one of his anchors. Cue knowing that and h
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