"Irrespective of the general closeness of the parent-teen relationships, researchers found that teens reported feeling more loved on days when parents reported showing more warmth in the form of affection, understanding, and praise. Likewise, teens reported feeling less loved on days when parents reported more conflict than usual. More importantly, the researchers said, they also found that parents can mitigate the impact of conflict by showing their teen warmth. In other words, on days when parents were warm, high levels of conflict didn’t reduce how loved teens felt.

"Parenting education and support help us do more of the good things we want to do and fewer of the harmful things we sometimes do despite our best intentions. Emotional struggles, in children and adults, whether current or past, mild or severe, framed by comfort or deprivation, persist unless we process them.

“Our goal is to identify the knowledge and resources that could help pregnant and postpartum women cope with all of the unique stressors they are facing right now so that we can secure the health of moms and babies.”

"Devote yourself to love."

"I strongly suggest you share this article. Make those around you aware that you are trying to understand and help a fellow mama find her own voice in bringing social change to the world.

"In addition to keeping an open dialogue about racism, a way to raise children who are anti-racist is by making sure your home library has books with black people at the center of their stories." You may have some of these books, or add them to your library, read and talk together.

"So, one of the great things about being an ethnographer and embedding myself in this community is that I was able to really document all of the different ways that children, in my research, learned about race.

"It is one thing to be concerned for my own well-being, to navigate the country as a black man and to encounter its risks.

"... But racism dehumanizes all of us. We can only end racism by talking with all of our children about how it unfair it is, by admitting that all of us have a tendency to judge people based on appearance, by pointing out the terrible cost to people of color but also to our entire society, and by teaching our children that treating all people fairly matters."

Resources for speaking with your children about racism and nurturing them for a more compassionate world right now - here are a few to start. Thank you, Anna Howard

"The burden of rooting out the cancer of racism and dismantling racist systems cannot be left to those victimized by that cancer. All of us must work together, pay attention, speak up, show up, educate ourselves, and work to eradicate racism, violence, and oppression in our society. Peace cannot be the default privilege of the few.

We can’t rely on our own life experiences to understand how this is affecting our kids. We are learning how to live in this new world along with our teens. Listen to them. Ask them questions. What is it like to be them?

Please help us understand more about your well being and how you are managing with stress, anxiety, disappointments, time together, schooling--any parenting/caregiving challenges AND successes as you relate with your child(ren) during COVID-19 (coronavirus).

As we shelter at home, the family unit feels the impact in many ways.