How to choose the three to seven that actually describe your family, and what to do once you have them. Ask most families to name their values and you’ll get a list of nice words. Honesty, kindness, respect, love. Everyone nods, someone writes it on a chalkboard sign for the kitchen, and by Friday nobody
Most parents we’ve interviewed build family culture in one of two ways. They sit down once, agree on what they value, and never really revisit it. Honesty gets said out loud one time, over dinner or a long weekend, and then life happens and nobody mentions it again until something goes wrong. They leave it
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By now, most of us have heard the statistics about youth mental health. The numbers are hard to ignore. According to the CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey in 2023, [40% of teenagers experienced persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness in the past year]. Nearly a third reported poor mental health in the past month. Stanford
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