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Parenting in the Digital Age: Tips to Uphold Kids’ Mental Health By Merilee Kern, MBA
There has been much critical discourse about the escalating children’s mental health crisis relative to how benchmarks like stress, anxiety and loneliness are driving depression and other serious psychological conditions amongst youth populations like never before. Of course, children are not the only ones suffering, as parents and caregivers struggle to prevent, address and treat concerns in order to uphold kids’ emotional well-being. In this process, the adults themselves are suffering in kind—often exacerbating their own mental and emotional struggles amid the copious complexities of modern life. This, of course, has a litany of macro-economic implications. As one case in point, a Morgan Stanley Alliance for Children’s Mental Health research…


