29 min

Special Parent Series: Episode 214 with "Dawn‪"‬ Success is Subjective: Helping parents of college students accept that dropping out is okay

    • Mental Health

For the entire month of May, in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, Joanna is bringing you a special parent series, where she interviews parents whose children have overcome a variety of mental health challenges. Having grown up as an only child, Dawn didn’t know fully what she was in for when she and her husband brought two boys into the world. When her boys were teenagers, they began experimenting with drugs and alcohol. Dawn initially thought that maybe this was just “boys being boys” ...

For the entire month of May, in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, Joanna is bringing you a special parent series, where she interviews parents whose children have overcome a variety of mental health challenges. Having grown up as an only child, Dawn didn’t know fully what she was in for when she and her husband brought two boys into the world. When her boys were teenagers, they began experimenting with drugs and alcohol. Dawn initially thought that maybe this was just “boys being boys” ...

29 min