Crucial conversations about the hidden agenda behind vaping and other things trending in your child’s life

by Joanna Jullien | Nov 26, 2019 | addiction, Anxiety, Children's Health & Mental Health, Family, Mobile Phone Use and Children, Motivation, Parent-child communication, Parent-child relationship, Parenting, Prevention strategy, Relationship, Social Media, Substance Abuse & Addiction, Wisdom

Executive summary The commercial interests hired experts to craft social media campaigns to engage minor-aged youth in vaping. The response to these commercial efforts using e-cigarette technology to get youth as nicotine consumers includes 1) a Surgeon General...

Help foster youth experience meaningful connection through reading

by Joanna Jullien | Nov 19, 2018 | Children's Health & Mental Health, Education, Faith, Family, Motivation, Parent-child communication, Parenting, Trauma-informed parenting, Uncategorized

This fall I attended a regional event on parenting children suffering from trauma, hosted by Defending the Cause, a non-profit dedicated to helping people of faith communities connect with local resources to help youth by strengthening families. One of the resources I...

Educators respond to the student mental health crisis: What tech-savvy youth need from parents

by Joanna Jullien | Mar 5, 2018 | addiction, Anxiety, Bullying, Children's Health & Mental Health, Children's mental health, Cyberbullying, Discipline, Drug Abuse and Youth, Education, Faith, Family, Internet addiction, Mobile Phone Use and Children, Motivation, Parent-child communication, Parenting, Prevention strategy, Social Media, Teen drug addiction, Wisdom, Youth Suicide

Last week I delivered a training to educators and counselors on how parents can learn to instill learning discipline among tech-savvy youth at a state educators’ conference. Attendees traveled to Rocklin from across the state to learn how to promote mental health...

Understanding the pros and cons of anxiety in a cyber-powered world

by Joanna Jullien | Mar 9, 2017 | Anxiety, Children & Teens Problems & Pitfalls, Children's Health & Mental Health, Cyber Safety, Family, Mobile Phone Use and Children, Motivation, Parent-child communication, Social Media, Teenagers, Texting, Uncategorized, Wisdom

I recently came across an article in Psychology Today about the correlation between social media and anxiety. This is of great interest to me, because parenting tech-savvy teens requires us to better understand how the young hearts and minds in our families and...

Why loving tech-savvy youth requires us to surrender our opinions

by Joanna Jullien | Feb 5, 2017 | Cyber Safety, Faith, Family, Mobile Phone Use and Children, Motivation, My two cents, Parent-child relationship, Parental Authority, Parenting, Social Media, Uncategorized, Wisdom

One of the most important things modern youth need from parents today is wisdom which is often confused with opinion. Human opinion may be informed by wisdom (lessons and insights from life experience), but it always offers limited understanding of a person, situation...

How your child’s mindset will reinforce or overcome learning disabilities

by Joanna Jullien | Apr 30, 2016 | Anxiety, Children & Teens Problems & Pitfalls, Children's Health & Mental Health, Cyber Safety, Education, Faith, Family, Homework, Mobile Phone Use and Children, Motivation, My two cents, Parent-child relationship, Parenting, Social Media, Uncategorized, Wisdom

(This is a reprint from my Sacramento Cyber Safety Examiner column on Examiner.com) This morning Bonnie Terry, owner of Bonnie Terry Learning center, spoke to parents about ways to overcome learning disabilities, such as ADD/ADHD and dyslexia, at St. Joseph Marello...