Episode 78: Teens & Young Adults Coping with Covid 19 with Mary Dell Harrington - a podcast by Gameday Media Enterprises

Mary Dell Harrington joins me on the Family Brain to talk about the impact of Covid 19 on
young adults and their families. Graduations are being held online, proms are cancelled, and life
as we know it has changed drastically. Mary Dell’s Facebook community of Grown and Flown
is an online place for parents to come together around the specific gifts and challenges of older
“grown and flown” children, many of whom are coming back to the nest during this time of the
pandemic.

Check out the book Grown and Flown https://grownandflown.com/book/

Mary Dell talks about how she is managing her quarantine with her husband, pup, and grown children.
Enjoying the unexpected time together while also processing all the changes and adjustments
happening. We talk about how parents are noticing that kids are missing their friends, but that kids are
enjoying the slowing down from all the activities. Mary Dell suggests that perhaps we are at a tipping
point where we reexamine how we structure our lives. We discuss the financial impact of this crisis on
college aged kids and how that will change our summers.

“If we treat our kids as the responsible people that they are they tend to respond as responsible
people.”
Mary Dell Harrington

Sonya Renee Taylor says:
“We will not go back to normal. Normal never was. Our pre-corona existence was not normal other
than we normalized greed, inequity, exhaustion, depletion, extraction, disconnection, confusion, rage,
hoarding, hate, and lack. We should not long to return, my friends. We are being given the opportunity
to stitch a new garment. One that fits all of humanity and nature.”

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