Partly as an after affect of the pandemic and partly as a bi-product of adolescence many teens are struggling with anxiety.

These are challenging and unprecedented times. It is difficult for adults to make sense of the time of covid. It is especially hard for kids to understand and deal with the changes to daily life that have shown up in the last six months.

Our age is characterized by the perfection of means and the confusion of goals.” Those wise words were spoken by Albert Einstein many years ago. They still are true. As we move forward in time we find ourselves with more means, i.e.., having the tools to have a wonderful life. Such as cell phones, the internet, a more affluent society and yet we are struggling with what are the goals we have for ourselves.

As adolescents make the challenging journey from childhood towards adulthood one of their tasks is to find their identity.  Being age fourteen is recycling age two so there is a lot of saying “no” and being oppositional that goes with the teen years. For that two-year-old and the adolescent the “no’s” are about defining themselves and asserting their power. They are in a process of separating themselves from what their parents want from them.