Helping Your Child Thrive: Two New Expert-Led Episodes from the Health & Wellness Podcast

Rutgers Prep's Health and Wellness podcast series continues with two standout episodes designed to support parents navigating their children’s adolescent years.

Episode 3 features clinical neuropsychologist and author Dr. Matt Bellace, who shares practical ways parents can foster resilience, independence, and emotional strength. From embracing failure to finding “natural highs,” Dr. Bellace offers a refreshingly honest take on raising healthy, capable young people.

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Episode 4 welcomes Co-Director of College Counseling at Rutgers Prep Shelley Krause, who draws on 20 years of experience to help parents encourage intrinsic self-worth, self-advocacy, and balanced priorities in middle school, high school, and beyond.

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Here are some additional resources that parents can use to help frame their thinking:

• How to Raise an Adult, Julie-Lyhcott-Haines
• The Truth about College Admission: A Family Guide to Getting In and Staying Together, Brennan Barnard & Rick Clark
• Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It, Jennifer Breheny Wallace
• Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be, Frank Bruni