If you are a Gen Xer or Millenial who is parenting Gen Z or Gen Alpha kids, I get you. Parenting is beautiful and very hard. Many of us find ourselves in the position of parenting our children in ways that children have not been parented before. We are teaching our children emotional coping skills that were not taught to us, and we are the first wave of parents who are parenting our children while also re-parenting ourselves. Additionally, we have aging or deceased parents and sometimes complicated relationships with them. We are navigating our own childhood wounds, while tending to our children and parents, working, and also managing relationships, separations, divorces, and/or coparenting. We are raising our kids in a world that feels unpredictable and scary, with the added newer stresses of how to teach our children to navigate the online world, social media, and AI. It’s a lot. Let’s talk more.
