Nurturing the Gen Z Golden Child and Scapegoat
13 secrets to raising self-loving humans in the face of our most troubling times
Compassion for what they’re going through and teaching self-love to our children couldn’t be more important.
My babies are 19 and 22 years old. They are of the Z Generation, a generation that has never existed without social media. They’ve never not known about or experienced cyberbullying, toxic social comparisons and living with little face-to-face communication. Yet, social media is still relatively new to the world and even the adults around them consistently misuse it.
Generation Z is suffering the highest rates of anxiety, depression and loneliness of all time. There may be a higher awareness of mental health, but it’s not enough to offset the greater mental health care they need. Especially when so many of them have at least one parent who is emotionally immature or are full-on narcissists.
Never mind what the COVID pandemic has done to these kids. Can you even fathom what it was like to be in school during all that?
This past week, each of my kids have come to me with anxious notions about the frightening realities they see bearing down on them, and it’s made me reign in my own challenges and listen.
