"Resilience is the capacity to retain core purpose and integrity in the face of dramatically changing circumstances."
— Todd Bolsinger

When the heat gets turned up, change is happening and challenges are being faced, we can stay calm (acknowledge but not give in to our emotions), stay connected (don't isolate ourselves—don't take our ball and go home) and stay the course (there is still a game to be played; there is still a life to be lived.)

In this episode of the Parenting Podcast, we're talking about how to build resilient, strong kids. To get there, we must learn to build resilience in ourselves so our children will see what it looks like to be resilient.

Kids today are no longer sad, they're depressed. They're no longer worried, they are anxious. They are no longer "going through a hard time," they are "experiencing acute trauma and PTSD."

Our kids today have received more mental health intervention in the form of therapy of some form and yet by every measure, this generation's mental health is getting worse. Why is that the case?

In this episode of the Parenting podcast, we're diving into a conversation around a new book, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up, by Abigail Shrier

At the beginning of this episode, Scott referred to the Irreversible Damage episode of Locker Room: Season 8, episode 5.

If you were to walk up to the average person you know and say, "how are you?" The number one response will probably be, "busy."

We can be busy for a season, but we all need to have some margin in our lives. That margin is there for things like rest, other people, emergencies, and spontaneity. If we fill our schedule to the degree that if something else were to try to squeeze its way in, the whole thing would come crashing down, that's an indication that we might be too busy.

In this episode we sit down to discuss what we can do to guard the most important things during the busy seasons, and how we can establish healthy rhythms of activity and rest in our families.