How games, loot boxes, and prediction markets introduce kids to gambling, who is most at risk, and what parents and professionals can do.

Kratom extracts, 7-OH, tianeptine, phenibut, nitrous oxide, Zyn, and hemp THC: what teens are buying, signs of use, and which drug tests detect them.

Sending your teen to residential treatment or boarding school can feel like letting go. A therapeutic consultant on guilt, fear, and finding the right grip.

Your teenager gives you one-word answers. That is developmentally normal. What Harvard researcher Alison Wood Brooks found about conversation can help.

An educational consultant on why school searches fail when parents build the list from the outcome backward, and what to do before you look at a single school name.

Four generations of mothers and daughters taught me you never fully know the people you love most — on secrets, letting go, and loving across the gap.

I sent my son to residential treatment at 11. Years later, we walked The Frick together. For any parent in the hardest part: you have not lost your child.

A therapeutic consultant explains why kids with ADHD and autism get labeled with PDA, why lowering demands backfires, and how to tell can't from avoidance.

Why do some teens and young adults refuse help for addiction or mental illness? Honest guidance on denial, rock bottom, and what parents can control.

A mother and educational consultant on high-potency THC, the teenage brain, and psychosis risk, and the research I wish I'd had when my son was using.

How to reduce screen time and bring daily presence into family life. Practices include shinrin-yoku, technology boundaries, and daily ritual.

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When your child refuses to fit the mold, it can feel like failure. It might be the most important invitation you'll ever receive. On embracing your child for who they are — and what it asks of you.

… After recently listening to Holman’s book, narrated in a delightfully playful way, I found myself feeling inspired to bring more play into my own life. I am moving, thinking, working, and parenting a little differently, and hopefully for the better. I am finding more ways to bring a playful energy into my interactions with others, and those moments feel more connected and more fulfilling.

When there is no right answer, families don't need more information. They need someone to hold them in their grief and sorrow. On what that kind of support actually requires.

AI can tell you to use cold air for croup at 2am. What it can't do is sit with you when your teenager is falling apart and you need to stay present. On the limits of AI in parenting — and what no tool can replace.

When a therapeutic program placement fails, the child rarely thinks the program was wrong. He thinks he failed. Again. On the real cost of the wrong fit — and what it takes to get it right.

AI can search. It can synthesize. But there are things about therapeutic program placement it cannot know — not because the information hasn't been written yet, but because it can't be. A therapeutic educational consultant explains why.

When neurodivergent, ADHD, autistic, anxious, or depressed teens and failure‑to‑launch young adults need more than parents can give, widening the circle of caring adults becomes an act of love, not failure.