Balancing Act: Advice for keeping COVID-19 conflicts with your teenagers from sabotaging your family
by Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune
Jul 15, 2020
3 minutes
If you're parenting teenagers during a pandemic, you can't avoid conflict; you can only hope to contain it.
And with uncertainty about when many students will return to classrooms, when sports and clubs and extracurriculars and social lives can return to a normal-ish clip, we can expect to be in containment mode for a while.
Lisa Damour, clinical psychologist, best-selling author and New York Times Adolescence columnist, sees an opportunity.
"Bottom line, conflict is high and will be for a while," Damour told me. "Which gives us
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