Blog
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting for the Future Stories: Raising Successful Kids, Talking to Your Kids About Mental Health, How to Handle Potentially Life-Threatening Social Media Posts, College Kids Reach Space, Millennial Finances, Advances in Autism Treatments, and Climate Change’s Impact on our Kids’ Health.
The link between social media and mental health continues to dominate headlines across the media landscape as we learn more about its impact on all of us, especially our kids. It seems we cannot escape the gloomy news nor the doomsday forecast for our kids as they...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting for the Future Stories: Beating Hunger, Financial Security, Navigating Racism, Emotional Resilience and Innovating the SATs and learning
Hunger, poverty and inequality continue to afflict the human family and threaten the future of too many of our children. This week, I was inspired by an inventor, a billionaire, a mother, and even a college board, all tackling these scourges through creativity,...
Petal’s Weekly Tips for Top Parenting Stories: Raising CEOs and doctors, Trailblazing Educators, and Climate Change
There were plenty of stories to inspire me on the Parenting for the Future front this week, including several about Esther Wojcicki, who I met at the NYC launch of her highly anticipated book: “How to Raise Successful People.” A lifelong educator, trailblazer and...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting Stories: Internet Access, Sports, and Engineering
Parenting in the digital era can cause us a lot of angst as we strive for balance in screen time and social media. But as I work on my podcast Parenting for the Future, I’m keenly aware that digital technology is what has truly allowed us to advance into the...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting Stories: Lifelong Learning, Plastic Toys, and Meltdowns
As I get closer to launching my podcast Parenting for the Future, I think about how much I’ve enjoyed learning more about a wide range of topics through interviewing leading experts and authors on human development. One of the best stories that I came across this...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting Stories: Asthma, Parenting Style, and Firstborn Advantage
The current state of the environment and the changing climate affects us all, but parents are especially worried about the impact of pollution on their children and what the world will look like when they reach adulthood. As I work on my Parenting for the Future...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting Stories: Endangered Species, Foodies and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
As I get closer to the launch of my podcast Parenting for the Future, I've been thinking about how we all have different parenting concerns about the future based upon our own life experiences. For example, an essay in Salon looks at the fear of one mother who came...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting Stories: Early Childcare in India, Future of Work in Australia and Parenting Class in Japan
As a parent with the goal of raising two global citizens, I find myself drawn to stories about how parents around the world are preparing their children for the future. This week, as I worked on my podcast Parenting for the Future, I took time to read about early...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting Stories: The Future of Work, Adulthood and Feeling Secure
I've been making exciting progress on my podcast Parenting for the Future and the launch is in sight! When we talk about parenting, we also must talk about educating -- both formally and informally. As you know, education has long been a passion of mine. I've been...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting Stories: Teenage Brain, Inclusivity and Climate Strike
One of my main motivations behind creating my podcast Parenting for the Future is the desire to address how dramatically the world is changing in the environmental and technological sense. Many older children realize this -- and that's why more than 1 million...