Parents, especially moms, may hurt longer and deeper than they expected when they waved goodby to their college student kids. Jodi Silverman guides empty nesters out of sadness or worries over their young adult children launching into college or moving out of the home.

Additional Resources:

Jodisilverman.com

Moms Who Dare Facebook community

Beyond Empty Nest podcast

Marilyn Raichle compares notes with Leah on the benefits to kids of acting lessons and theater projects. Marilyn has been one of America's most successful children's theater producers, while never being an actor and not having children of her own. Find out how she created "an explosion of good will, an explosion of happiness" for kids onstage.

Youth advocate Emma Lembke returns to the show, digging into how and why big tech creates addicts of kids who use social media. Technology, she says, dumbs down Gen Z while it consumes their mental health and privacy. Co-founder of the Log Off Movement, Emma discusses how legislation and lawsuits could protect children from the predatory tactics of Big Tech.

Additional resources:

Episode 59, "Media Mirage" on Conversation Balloons https://open.spotify.com/episode/0jw8ky4z4YGSk6EZcS8NEO

Log Off Movement, logoffmovement.org

Design It for Us, designitforus.org

Tech(nically) Politics, technicallypolitics.org

Socialmediasafety.org

Scrolling2death.com