Harvard Thinking Podcast | Is your parenting style working?
For a recent episode of “Harvard Thinking,” host Samantha Laine Perfas spoke with Kiran Bhai, Executive Director of Making Caring Common, along with economics professor at Brown University, Emily Oster, and clinical psychologist Meredith Elkins about parenting styles and the effects of specific choices, such as how we help our children when they are in distress, on children’s development and growth.
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Host Samantha Laine Perfas spoke with Kiran Bhai, Executive Director of Making Caring Common, and other guests about parenting styles and the effects of specific choices, such as how we help our children when they are in distress, on children’s development and growth.
Richard Weissbourd joins a panel of experts for a discussion about parental mental health hosted by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Together they explore the stress parents face, how parental mental health affects child development, and strategies for supporting parents.
Author and health educator Shafia Zaloom discusses the ways we talk to children and teens about ethical intimacy and sex, helping them center their growing understanding of relationships, consent, and sex on a foundation of love and respect—for themselves and the individuals and world around them.
How can parents, caregivers, and teachers start the new school year strong, but not “borrow from tomorrow” in order to make today perfect?
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.