Life Kit: Parenting · NPR
How to help your Gen Z kid cope with their back-to-school emotions
August 27, 2024·23 min·2 clips
94% of teens reported feeling happy yesterday, yet 45% also felt stressed—what does this say about their emotional lives?
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A calm, useful frame for parents facing school-year stress and teenage perfectionism.
This Life Kit conversation is strongest when it reframes back-to-school stress with a steadier lens. Middle school and high school feelings come through as intense without being treated as proof that something is wrong, and the discussion gives parents a cleaner way to think…
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You want a calmer way to talk about your teen's back-to-school spiral.
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