Your Teen with Sue and Steph

Even in a world sans Covid-19, taking a "gap year"— or taking a year in between high school and college to travel or do service work— is an underrated and excellent option for many teens. Julia Rogers of EnRoute Consulting and the podcast Gap Year Radio joins Sue and Steph to discuss options for students currently in their junior or senior years of high school.

So you made it through the rest of the school year... but now what? With no camps or other traditional organized activities, what's your kid going to do all summer? Dr. Anisha Abraham joins Sue and Steph to share some ideas on how to build the best non-traditional summer possible for your kids, plus some advice on how to handle the transitional phases between varying levels of lockdown.

Empathy is an often underrated trait in the hyper-competitive, achievement-based world that many of our teens are living in. Michele Borba, educational psychologist and author of "UnSelfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed," joins Sue and Steph to teach us the value of empathy in the lives of young people.

Even in a world sans Covid-19, taking a "gap year"— or taking a year in between high school and college to travel or do service work— is an underrated and excellent option for many teens. Julia Rogers of EnRoute consulting and the podcast Gap Year Radio joins Sue and Steph to discuss options for students currently in their junior or senior years of high school.

Mediocre (or just plain mean!) friends, lunchroom exclusion, and the sting of first-time rejection from a sports team or school play are all hallmarks of everyone's least favorite years... middle school. However, according to Phyllis Fagell, this time can be about more than "just getting through it." 

The day-to-day world of today's teens is vastly different than the one once experienced by their parents. Between social media pressures and the barage of all-too-accessible, often-troubling information, being a teen today is even more overwhelming than it was just ten years ago. Dr. John Duffy, author of Parenting The New Teen in the Age of Anxiety, shares his thoughts on how to best parent the new teen. 

Did you know that primary school learning accommodations like IEPs and 504s have no collegiate equivalent? Kind of daunting for those with disabilities, right? Not necessarily! Elizabeth C. Hamblet, learning disabilities consultant at Columbia University, is here to share her advice on how students can best navigate the transition to college and create a new academic normal.  NOTE: This episode was recorded prior to the Covid-19 outbreak. 

The new wave of shelter in place orders sweeping the nation may feel more like a sentence of "mandatory family bonding" for the teen in your life. Dr. Tori Cordiano joins Your Teen to share her recommended strategies for keeping the peace while staying safe at home.

While coronavirus has the general population social distancing, it's doing the exact opposite to parents and forced-to-be-at-home college students. How should families handle these tenuous circumstances? Debbie Paris, child psychotherapist and go-to guide of Your Teen, shares her thoughts. (Episode audio quality courtesy of social distancing.)

Put down the melatonin— getting a great night's sleep is less complicated than you might think. Dr. Marc Milstein joins Sue and Steph to share his simple tricks we can all use to get some solid rest and to create the sleep schedule of our dreams.