CNN health | A parent’s primary role: Protecting our kids against hopelessness

(CNN) = Given the pandemic’s extra stressors, it can be hard for parents to know what’s weighing on our kids or how to help.

Whether adolescents are struggling with the impact of Covid-19 on their lives or more ordinary issues around friends, grades, extracurriculars or graduation and what comes after, psychologist Lisa Damour offers clear prescriptions for parents.

Parents’ primary job, she said, is to help “guard our kids against an overall sense of hopelessness.” Easier said than done — these days, especially — but the stakes are too high not to try.  –-read more—