“Attitude Magazine “Dear Parenting Coach” Column
AARP Magazine
“What to Do When Your Child Has a Crisis”
Expert advice on helping your kid handle the difficult mid-teen years
by Judith Newman, July 30, 2021
Contributor Adam Price
Right now I have a perfectly imperfect 19-year-old. Two or three years ago, though, I'd often think: Only one of us is going to make it through this alive. His behavior was maddeningly typical of kids ages 14 to 17: the mood swings, the defiance, the impulsivity that makes them do stupid stuff, the paralysis that keeps them from doing what they're supposed to. If you've got a kid that age, you know what I'm talking about. And it won't be news to you that 2020 didn't help. Last year was everyone's annus horribilis, but many psychologists believe adolescents were hit hardest…
For Adam Price, a psychologist and author of He's Not Lazy: Empowering Your Son to Believe in Himself, part of the challenge is perspective. “As terrible as the year was for adults, age allows us to take the long view,” he says. “In our lives, this was a blip.” Not so for teens: “The loss of friendships, relationships, milestones like graduation and proms and first jobs — for many, that was all gone."
Consequently, the usual dramas of mid-adolescence have been magnified. Anxiety, depression and that particularly painful scourge — comparing yourself to your peers and coming up short — have been front and center for many teens. Now that we are emerging from the morass, how can parents help teens get back on track? Experts provide some answers… Read Now
Chicago Tribune
"How to Enhance Your Self-Confidence"
By Cheryl Stritzel McCarthy
Contributor Adam Price
July. 12, 2016
Job interview? Sales pitch? Big date? How you see the situation can affect how it goes.
Psychologists know that when you change how you perceive a challenging situation, how you present it to yourself, your performance can improve.
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Confidence flows from success, says Adam Price, a psychologist with offices in New York and New Jersey. Success comes from trying, learning and trying again. Performance confidence rests on your tolerance for uncertainty. You're not confident about the outcome, but know that if you keep at it, even in the face of failure and self-doubt, you will eventually succeed.
The brain changes as you learn new things or develop new skills, Price points out. Psychologists call it plasticity. For that to happen, you have to tolerate the anxiety of not knowing, or failing, until the new skill is learned…. Read more
The Wall Street Journal
"The Underchallenged 'Lazy Teenager'"
by Adam Price
Aug. 11, 2014
For too many teenagers, back to school means back to pressure. But the media coverage tends to focus on the problems of a super-achieving academic elite—the students enrolled in multiple Advanced Placement courses, whose parents have a Harvard-or-bust mentality. Yet there is another, often overlooked class of children—chiefly teenage boys, the ones that parents perennially despair of as "lazy" or mysteriously and obstinately unmotivated.
They are the ones who make time for television, videogames, social media and {click here to continue reading . . . }