The power of six-month intervals

The long game is where it’s at

In an article I wrote for CNN—5 ways to support tweens’ and teens’ developing brains—the brilliant Dr. Tina Payne Bryson (no joke, follow her in all the places and buy all of her books) said something that stopped me in my tracks. We were talking about brain plasticity and the reality that adolescent brains aren’t finished developing until their 20s. Th…