Extra: A Call To Shift The Parenting Paradigm
Raising teenagers is not easy.
For generations, parents have struggled to help their children cope with the anxiety generated by school, friends, and all those hormonal changes.
However, in her book, 'The Crucial Years: The Essential Guide to Mental Health & Modern Puberty in Middle Childhood, Ages 6-12,' clinical psychologist, family therapist, and mother Dr. Sheryl Ziegler suggests that the teenage years might be easier if more attention is given to those years in between early development and adolescence.
Dr. Ziegler recently joined host Lisa Brady on the FOX News Rundown to explain why a paradigm shift in parenting can help prepare kids for adolescence.
Today on Fox News Rundown Extra, we will share our entire interview with Dr. Ziegler and let you hear even more of her parenting advice.
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