Monday, October 26, 2020

Dr. Christine Carter speak to GPS on teens’ uncertain futures, media overload among topics

 


On Tuesday, Oct. 20  the Glenbard Parent Series hosted Dr. Christine Carter the author of The New Adolescence:  Raising Happy and Successful Teens in and Age of Anxiety and Distraction.  Dr. Carter returned to the Glenbard Parents Series as part of our 25th year celebration to offer science-based strategies for raising happy, healthy, and successful young people. 

Christine Carter, Ph.D., is a sociologist, and Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center. Her best-selling books include “The Adolescence: Raising Happy and Successful Teens in an Age of Anxiety and Distraction” (2020) and “Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents.” 






Glenbard South parent Anita Gaikis shared the following takeaway:


Kids need freedom, privacy, and clear guidelines (given with warmth) about our expectations.  Move to the role of consultant. We need to acknowledge our children’s very real loss and disappointments around the changes in their lives and schedules due to COVID-19. We need to acknowledge their feelings about the loss of their usual high school milestones. Teens experience their emotions very intensely. We need to actively listen without trying to fix or take away their grief and "name the  emotion - to tame it".  Is it sadness, anger, or frustration. Empathy is powerful!



A message from Dr. Christine Carter: 

"I hope you will order my new book, The New Adolescence. It's available on Amazon, of course, but my favorite local bookstore, Book Passage, can also send it to you. If you want a signed, personalized copy, Book Passage can do that, too. Just add a note in the "Order Comments" section during checkout that you'd like it signed, and to whom you'd like me to personalize it.

Participants can text CARTER to 668-66 to receive additional resources."


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