Frontiers in Health & Happiness | Raising Caring Children with Richard Weissbourd
What if raising happier, healthier children starts with teaching them to care beyond their inner circle?
That's the question host Ayla Fudala discusses with Making Caring Common Faculty Director Richard Weissbourd on the latest episode of the Frontiers in Health and Happiness podcast from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The episode explores "how parents, educators, and communities can help young people become caring, moral, and thriving."
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Making Caring Common Faculty Director Richard Weissbourd joins host Ayla Fudala on the Frontiers of Health & Happiness podcast to discuss "how parents, educators, and communities can help young people become caring, moral, and thriving."
Making Caring Common Faculty Director Richard Weissbourd recently spoke with NBC News about the new survey and report, "Gen Z Wants to Do Good: How Helping Others Supports Meaning and Wellbeing," developed in collaboration between Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation.
Parents thoughtfully sharing about their own mental health challenges can also encourage teens to open up about their struggles and alleviate the stigma they may feel about anxiety and depression.
There may, in fact, be nothing more important in a child’s life than a positive and trusting relationship with a caring adult. Michael McLaughlin, Making Caring Common’s Schools & Parenting Programs Manager, explores how Intentionally and strategically building these types of relationships at your school can boost students’ academic and social-emotional capacities and even transform lives.