Adolescence and Young Adults

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Blogs from 2008-2020 were written for Jonah Green and Associates and are reprinted with permission.

Reena Bernards

Putting the Love Back into Tough Love

Ever since Bill Milliken, a Christian minister working with at-risk youth in New York’s lower East Side, wrote a book in 1968 by the...

Reena Bernards

How to Make the College Application Year “Chill,” for You and Your Teenager

Spring is here and high school juniors are just now finding letters in their mailboxes that tell them whether a college has accepted them...

Reena Bernards

Teaching Values Through A Weekly Allowance

Your children’s weekly allowance can provide an important opportunity to teach the values that are salient in your family. It is wise...

Reena Bernards

Leaving Home: The Journey of Growing to Adulthood

In her poem “To a Daughter Leaving Home,” Linda Pastan describes her experience of teaching her eight year old daughter how to ride a...