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August 19, 2020
Dear Christine: What If I Don’t Agree With My Co-Parent?
Trying to get your co-parent to parent your way? Here’s what to do. Dear Christine, What should I do if my husband and I don’t agree about family rules? For example, I really want to establish your no-phones-in-the-car rule, but my husband won’t enforce it. He often lets our kids use their phones when he …
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August 14, 2020
Seven Ways to Cope with Uncertainty
What should we do when everything feels so out of control? Living with so much uncertainty is hard. Human beings crave information about the future in the same way we crave food, sex, and other primary rewards. Our brains perceive ambiguity as a threat, and they try to protect us by diminishing our ability to …
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June 19, 2020
My Kids Have Nothing to Do This Summer. Now What?
This Dear Christine column offers tips for structuring your family’s summer during the pandemic. Dear Christine, Since school ended, my whole family is floundering. We have no summer plans. I’m feeling some pressure to make up for “COVID slump,” but I haven’t a clue how to do so. Neither of my teenagers has summer jobs …
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How to Structure Life Now that it’s Summer
Dear Christine, Since school ended, my whole family is floundering. We have no summer plans. I’m feeling some pressure to make up for “COVID slump,” but I haven’t a clue how to do so. Neither of my teenagers have summer jobs or internships, and neither is interested in taking an online class. We need to …
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June 16, 2020
Resources for Learning about Racism
What am I doing to be a better antiracist? Learning — both about myself and about the racist systems, policies, and beliefs that are driving our culture. Want to join me? You could start by taking the Harvard Implicit Bias test about race. Don’t worry if you find out that you have more unconscious bias than …
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Resources for Being a Better Antiracist
What am I doing to be a better antiracist? Learning all the time — both about myself and about the racist systems, policies, and beliefs that are driving our culture. Want to join me? You could start by taking the Harvard Implicit Bias test about race. Don’t worry if you find out that you have …
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June 15, 2020
A Conversation About Race with Julie Lythcott-Haims, Nefertiti Austin, Christine Koh and Leslie Priscilla Arreola-Hillenbrand
Probably like many of you, my “plans” for the summer are not what I anticipated they’d be. And my summer reading list has changed. I’m with Van Jones in believing that we’ve each been called to do “a personal and spiritual accounting.” How did we, as a society, get here? Though we may often feel powerless, most …
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June 12, 2020
Summer Parenting MASTERCLASS
I know many parents are feeling burned out on summer (already). I have a great resource for you! It’s a virtual masterclass called Parenting in Place: Helping Families Thrive in Challenging Times. It’s a new series from a group of parenting coaches, therapists, authors, educators, and neuroscientists who’ve come together to share best practices for thriving this …
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May 5, 2020
All I Want for Mother’s Day Is an Equitable Division of Labor
Here’s how to renegotiate the unfair burdens created by the coronavirus lockdown This Mother’s Day is going to be a doozy for a lotta moms out there. I have been flooded with requests from working moms for strategies to sustain their own well-being while trying to keep their children from slipping into depression and their …
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April 23, 2020
How to Help Teens Handle the Loss of Proms and Graduations
Losing these ceremonies is a big deal. We need to help them grieve. Yesterday at dinner, one of my children was sad and irritated. She was offended by our mere existence. “What’s wrong with her now?” one of the other kids asked unkindly, to no one in particular. Like many young people around the world, …
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