Parenting the New Teen in the Age of Anxiety

A clinical psychologist offers an accessible guide to the “New Teen” and how parents can adjust to raising them in this emotionally challenging world.   Kids are growing up with nearly unlimited access to social media and the Internet, and unprecedented academic, social, and familial stressors. Starting as early as eight years old, children are exposed to information, thought, and emotion that they are developmentally unprepared to process. As a result, saving the typical “teen parenting” s