More than 40% of American teenagers report persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness. Youth anxiety and depression have reached levels that the U.S. Surgeon General has described as a public health crisis. Screen time is up, social connection is down, and the parenting strategies that generate the most anxiety in families — constant monitoring, performance pressure, criticism — appear to be making things worse, not better.
Into this landscape, a leading clinical psychologist at one of the country's premier medical institutions has a perhaps unexpected prescription: grandparents.
