Just think this is a really beautiful essay:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/23/opinion/sunday/taking-my-parents-to-college.html?_r=0

These numbers are REAL!

The chart at the bottom should be a wake-up call to "Tiger" moms and dads everywhere. We've come way off-track with the concept of happiness versus that of success (i.e. what our kids hear that we want FOR them). The percentage who have considered suicide is shameful as a society. These are the highest-performing kids! These are the kids at whom most would look and think they're under control. But we're reading them 180 degrees wrong. They're actually spinning out of control but the only thing parents are typically looking for is a level of academic performance or output.

http://www.medicaldaily.com/high-school-students-are-stressed-out-about-college-admissions-reality-burning-out-347476

Here's a great read about majors and college.

I think the takeaway is that parents should encourage their 18 year olds to explore ideas as opposed to encouraging 18 year olds to imagine their career(s):

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/education/edlife/four-steps-to-choosing-a-career-path.html?_r=0

Right on:
http://www.houstonpress.com/arts/no-it-s-not-your-opinion-you-re-just-wrong-7611752

I'm sorry that I don't update this blog more often with my writing and the great articles I find. These days it seems that news on teenagers and anxiety is omnipresent and I often find myself not wanting to contribute to the noise, not because I don't think it's important to discuss but because there is a level of saturation that, I believe, makes it difficult to sort through the mass of information and find that which is truly helpful and enlightening.

A Beautiful Boy is one of the most compelling memoirs, not just addiction memoirs, I have ever read. David Sheff is a very illuminated person and parent. I think that so much of what he says in this simple interview is insightful into our mentality toward teenagers, period.
https://www.minnpost.com/mental-health-addiction/2014/01/beloved-son-fuels-his-fathers-quest-understand-addiction-and-recover

This is critical. We're far beyond the tipping point.

We've taken the most valuable component out of the spectrum of importance with our young people. How they develop relationships and the opportunity to have sounding boards, be it therapists, mentors, adult family members, anyone with a healthy perspective and ability to listen carefully, is so imperative.

Our misguided pressures are killing kids.

http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201501290900