Un Stuck: Helping Teens and Young Adults Flourish in an Age of Anxiety

Many parents are drowning in information but starved for knowledge as digital media often consumes people’s attention span. As AI replaces automated processes, experts are calling for creativity and original thinking to be valued more than ever. Health and wellbeing expert O’Brien (Glow) shows busy parents how to inculcate these qualities, plus empathy, curiosity, and playfulness, in their children, via easily implementable ideas. The advice covers how to encourage offline activity, maintaining open lines of communication with teenagers, and teaching children about online safety. O’Brien demonstrates “heart-centered lessons” that parents and educators can use to help kids build emotional awareness and maturity and to model positive character traits, including resilience, inclusion, meaning and purpose, and awareness.