This resource list has been created to accompany the Brentwood United Methodist Church Resiliency and Hope Series: Conversations about Mental Wellness-Stress and Anxiety in the time of COVID-19. Dr. Wellborn’s Website has a lot of resources for parents and teens including some that are directly relevant to the stress and anxiety brought on by COVID-19 and its aftermath. Parenting in …
Parent Resources on Inclusiveness, Racism and Protests
Parenting Articles Center for Racial Justice in Education. Collection of resources for understanding and talking to kids about racial and social justice issues from real experts. Raising Race Conscious Children. Ideas about talking to your kids about race. Parent Magazine has a couple of good articles on talking about racism and black lives matter and on fighting hate at different …
Parenting through COVID-19: Kids and Isolation and Social Distancing
by James G. Wellborn and Stacy Jagger This virus thing is creating pandemonium and chaos—in my LIVING ROOM! What part of “You can’t go out” did you not understand?” “No, you can’t meet up with your friends. We are trying to stop a pandemic here!” (although according to us, you shouldn’t use the term pandemic to keep from scaring the …
Parenting in the Time of COVID-19: Talking to Kids about the Virus
This blog is the first of a series of columns I have written with Stacy Jagger, LMFT, RPT-S providing information and suggestions about parenting through the COVID-19 pandemic. These blogs will help you explain to your kids what is happening as well as how to deal with the various challenges of having kids home for the next month or more. …
Parenting Teens for the 21st Century Work Place: Achoring Skills
Twenty first century workers will have to contend with the reality that there are smart, accomplished people all over the world that can transmit their knowledge instantly anywhere in the world. While your kid will need to have a solid intellectual foundation, they will also need skill sets that can’t be outsourced to workers other countries; skills that can only …
Parenting Teens for the 21st Century Work Place: Continuous Learning
By some accounts, digital information doubles every 18 months. That would make the amount of digital information currently available be at around 3 x 1021 (that is 3 with 21 zeroes after it). And growing. That’s a lot of information. It is no longer sufficient to establish a basic knowledge set that will carry you through the end of your …
Self Confidence and Body Language
Self confidence is an important quality to cultivate in your kid. It is associated with better grades, more satisfying personal relationships, better decision making, greater self-control and general assertiveness. (It can also keep your kid from being mugged.) Self confidence is derived from skills and competencies, experiences, treatment by others and the nature and frequency of successes and failures. But, …
Preparing Teens for the 21st Century Work Place: Project Management
Jobs in which workers are responsible for discrete, repetitive and isolated (assembly line) tasks are disappearing in the 21st century work environment. In all levels of employment, workers have to accomplish multi-step tasks toward the completion of complex projects. In this environment, your kid’s ability to plan, coordinate and bring to completion complex projects will give them a decided advantage. …
Preparing Teens for the 21st Century Work Place: Leading by Influence
Traditional top down leadership (sometimes called bossing people around) works best in (and perpetuates) a static economy. The rapidly changing economic forces of the 21st century along with the increasingly collaborative nature of 21st century work environments are not well suited for this kind of leadership style. Instead, your kid will need to be familiar with and (ideally) practiced in …
Preparing Teens for the 21st Century Work Place: Saving Grace
Timeless universal values represented by an employee’s integrity will serve to distinguish them in an increasingly personal work environment. Curiously (and, maybe tellingly) discussions of important 21st Century work skills do not reference employees integrity (or the morals, ethics, values and character that compose it) as one of those important skills. And yet, without integrity (and a culture of integrity), …