Adolescent Health with Oona Hanson

"It's part of a cultural message to parents that they're somehow always getting it wrong. And that doesn't help anybody. It's just like with students, if they're always feeling criticized they aren't necessarily going to learn better. Shame doesn't motivate people." 

Los Angeles-based Parent Coach Oona Hanson has been a high school English teacher, a one-on-one academic tutor, and a parent educator. Recently, Oona launched her parent coaching consultancy, oonahanson.com, which focuses on supporting parent relationships with their adolescents and tweens. Oona is an empowering and trusted expert in boy's and girl's development, health and education. This episode focuses on the multiple definitions of health regarding today’s adolescents. Listen to Oona share her definition of health while she explains why the student-parent-teacher "relationship triangle” is critical toward its maintenance.