Bringing you what's new in teen health from a pediatrician, parent, and globetrotter…
The December holidays are one of my favorite times. However, it can also be stressful for global families-juggling travel, meeting relatives and friends, and balancing different customs and traditions. How can you keep calm and ensure you and your kids make the most of your holiday experience? My quick tips: Embrace your family’s unique customs, maintain routines, embrace focus on sharing experiences over buying gifts, don’t overdo it, and take time to express gratitude.
How many of us adults (or teens) actively embrace rejection or failure? Most of us try as hard as possible to avoid mistakes, particularly big, public ones. What if we risked trying something with the knowledge that failure was a distinct possibility and continued to try on a regular basis? That’s what 29-year social entrepreneur, global poverty ambassador and TEDx speaker, Caleb Meakins did in creating a 40-day challenge to try something new every day and probably fail.
How many of you have moved from country to country (or even within a country) or have kids that moved from place to place growing up? Do you have parents that were born outside of your home country or a spouse from a different community or background? As evidenced by an ongoing survey we are conducting of cross-cultural teens and parents experiencing moves, transition, different cultures, languages and religions can be challenging for kids but equally so for adults.
