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Teen Smart-Phone Usage as a Privilege, Not a Right: Establishing Sensible Restrictions
One thing that becomes very clear when listening to Lauren Muriello, LPC of Well Being Therapy Center talk about the use of technology, is the importance for parents to be very clear with their teens about their rules for cell phone use. There is no vagueness...
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How Anxiety Can Help Teens Practice For Life Challenges
Getting to the other side of anxiety In this short video Lauren Muriello, LPC of Well Being Therapy Center talks about how we all experience anxiety and that it is a natural, healthy part of the human condition. This reminds me of I a quote I saw recently that read...
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What’s It Like to Run a Summer Camp with Many Transgender and Gender-Expansive Teens?
Twenty years ago I was a middle-aged guy with a corporate job that never felt like a good fit for me. Today, I run an unconventional summer camp where up to one in four teens identifies as transgender or gender non-conforming. The journey has been an...
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Connection, Belonging and the Importance of Having Anchors in Teenagers’ Lives
The positive impact of even one adult in a teens world can be life changing. In video 6 of 8, Amy talks about our need for connection and the importance for teens to have at least one person in their life who sees and “gets” them. Amy calls these people...
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Do Cell Phones Belong at Camp?
The trauma of taking away kids' "magic phones" at camp I know that’s a little dramatic, but that’s how it feels watching kids hand their cell phones over to their parents when they are dropped off at camp. I think I got that “magic phone” term from the comedian Norm...
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Why Wait? Enrolling Early for Camp Has BIG Benefits
They say “good things come to those who wait,” but when it comes to a summer at Odyssey Teen Camp, we believe that enrolling early is the best way to set you and your teen up for success! Check out the top reasons why you should stop waiting and enroll today: ...
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The Dark Tunnel of Adolescent Evolution (Part 1): Why Parents Need to Stay in The Game
Introducing an 8 part series to help parents This is the first of an eight part interview series I conducted with Amy Frisch, a wonderful therapist who has been leading teenage girls’ groups for over twenty years. In this segment we discuss the challenges...
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Thoughts on Gender and How Kids Can Help us Grow if We Allow it to Happen
I love this segment with Amy. It's short, but she touches on several things that we as parents would be well served to keep in mind. When talking about gender and sexuality Amy says, almost as an aside … [click_to_tweet tweet="We are who we are and we love who...
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