by Teen Savvy | Nov 24, 2025 | Education, Parenting
If you’ve ever found yourself standing in the kitchen, staring at your child’s homework meltdown and thinking, “What on earth is actually happening here?”—you’re in good company. In our latest episode of Parenting Shrink Wrapped, Dr. Melissa Wellner and I sat down...
by Teen Savvy | Nov 17, 2025 | Health and Wellness, Parenting
Parenting teens and substance use has changed dramatically in the last decade. Today’s teens are navigating vapes that look like flash drives, marijuana products with far higher potency than past generations ever encountered, and gas-station synthetics like kratom...
by Teen Savvy | Nov 10, 2025 | Health and Wellness, Parenting
When most parents think about their teen’s development, they picture emotional ups and downs, shifting friend groups, or maybe the battle over sleep and screen time. But what if some of your teen’s current struggles trace back to something as simple as how they used...
by Teen Savvy | Nov 3, 2025 | Health and Wellness, Parenting
This week on Parenting Shrink Wrapped, we talked with Dr. Rebecca Vickers, a pediatrician who blends conventional and functional medicine to help kids truly heal. After years of practicing traditional pediatrics, Dr. Vickers began to notice a troubling trend: kids are...
by Teen Savvy | Oct 27, 2025 | News, Parenting
If your teen is dreading school—or you’ve started getting those “stomachache” texts every morning—here’s something important to remember: it might not be your teen that’s broken. It might be the system. In this week’s episode of Parenting Shrink Wrapped, Dr. Melissa...
by Teen Savvy | Oct 20, 2025 | News, Parenting
Halloween might look like candy and costumes on the surface, but parenting through Halloween offers a surprisingly rich snapshot of our kids’ growth—and our own. When my children were small, I was the one steering the ship: planning the route, managing meltdown and...
