Parenting Teenagers Untangled

← Parenting Teenagers Untangled9 sep · 41 min

Banning Social Media Won't Work: How Parents Can Actually Help Teens

Banning Social Media Won't Work: How Parents Can Actually Help Teens9 sep41 min

Ask Rachel anything Are smartphones and social media really damaging our teenagers’ mental health – or are we looking in the wrong place? In this episode, Rachel Richards talks with Professor Candice Odgers, a leading expert on adolescent mental health in the digital age, to unpack what decades of research actually show about teens, tech and wellbeing. We explore why today’s teenagers are doing better than many headlines suggest, the real size of the link between phones, social media, anxiety...