New Year Resolutions: We Can Manage This!

Did you know? According to a recent Clay Center survey, six out of 10 parents encourage their kids to adopt New Year’s resolutions. To bring in the new year (and decade!), we’re dedicating this episode to strategies on guiding young people towards meaningful and manageable goals. From getting specific about the “how,” to finding that spark in your child, to involving the whole family, Dr. Gene Beresin and Dr. Ellen Braaten talk through different ways of framing goals to set us all up for success in a new year. Plus, they make their own resolutions based on their own advice.

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Media List

• Around Town: The Yankee Swap, a gift exchange with a twist (Wicked Local)
• 2019 New Year Resolutions (Statista)
• Your New Year’s resolution will likely fail. Here’s why you should make one anyway, researchers say (Miami Herald)
• This Year, Don’t Set New Year’s Resolutions (Forbes)
• Most People Fail to Achieve Their New Year's Resolution. For Success, Choose a Word of the Year Instead (Inc.)
• 8 Smart (and Fun!) New Year’s Resolutions Kids Can Make (Parents)
• Making New Year’s Resolutions With Your Child (PBS Kids)
• Growing Together In the New Year (MGH Clay Center)
• Won’t You Be My Neighbor (Focus Features)
• A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood – Official Trailer (Sony Pictures)

Episode produced by Sara Rattigan

Music by Gene Beresin

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