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Common Sense Media, Lisa Damour Ph.D., author of the justreleased The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents, and Cara Natterson M.D., co-host of The Puberty Podcast.
Damour and Natterson offered timely, empathetic, and actionable advice that can help parents and caregivers build self-awareness and agency in their kids.
The talk was recorded and may be viewed on YouTube
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“It’s an interesting way to be seen,” Kaptcianos added. A Common Sense Media Connected Schools Conversation that centered on teens and their digital lives streamed on YouTube in April. Dozens of Brunswick parents tuned in.
Let’s Talk about Digital Wellness: Understanding Your Child’s Emotions and Mental Health featured Supreet Mann Ph.D. of
Service & Sustainability
Community Service Day returned in full force in late April — for the first time since before the pandemic, over 400 boys fanned out to locations around the region “in person” to lend some muscle to spring clean-up, food pantry projects, and even a Bedford Historical Society graveyard.
In Greenwich, it was a big year for planting trees. Greenwich Town Park, Helen Binney Kitchel Natural Park, and Pomerance Park are all home to new saplings thanks to the boys, while the ground Greenwich Community Gardens at Armstrong Court stands well-prepared for spring seedlings of all sorts thanks to the labor of about 60 students who tackled the seasonal cleanup there.
Boys brought a different set of skills to visits with the senior residents of Parsonage Cottage and King Street Rehab. Students were finally able to enter the buildings for in-person, face-to-face visits. Boys brought games with them, and played and chatted.
Director of Community Services Amy Kerekes said she was able to offer boys a choice of service project for the first time. “It was really successful,” she said. “The boys pumped each other up. They were excited.”
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Among the popular choices for service were Neighbor to Neighbor in Greenwich and Person to Person in Darien, as well as the Greenwich Boys & Girls Club, the Greenwich Land Trust, and the Bedford Historical Society.
The Sustainability Council launched its busy spring season with a visit from Barry Parkin P ’17, ’25, chief procurement and sustainability officer for the candy maker Mars, Incorporated. Parkin spoke to Upper School students in Baker Theater in late March; he detailed the company’s commitment to shift to 100 percent sustainable sourcing and packaging for all its candies by 2030.
The Council has also been hard at work planning and leading Earth Week initiatives and outreach.
Monday of Earth Week brought a continued on page 9
