Holiday Break Episode 2: Why you should keep your New Year's resolution

Release date: January 1, 2023

In this second mini Holiday Break episode, I revisit the science of why New Year's resolutions fail or succeed, and why, if your resolution is to improve your mental health, you should keep it for the sake of your kid. Links to the research I cite are below. Full-length Talking About Kids episodes will return later in this new year.

Links

Studies Show 91 Percent of Us Won't Achieve Our New Year's Resolutions. How to Be the 9 Percent That Do

https://www.inc.com/marcel-schwantes/studies-show-91-percent-of-us-wont-achieve-our-new-years-resolutions-how-to-be-9-percent-that-do.html

50% Of Gen Z Cite This Health Improvement As A Top New Year’s Resolution For 2023

https://www.forbes.com/health/mind/new-years-resolutions-survey-2023/

Children of adults with severe mental illness: mental health, help seeking and service use

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychiatric-bulletin/article/children-of-adults-with-severe-mental-illness-mental-health-help-seeking-and-service-use/F0485DB38962B73365F2E0FC8BA37D16

The Effects of Parental Mental Illness upon Children: A Descriptive Study of the Views of Parents and Children

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1359104504039767

When a parent has mental illness, how to support kids

https://answers.childrenshospital.org/parent-mental-illness/