Hi, I'm Monica Packer from About Progress, and this is a Grossbird, a bite-sized way you can increase your progress today.

In my online world, the news that broke the internet came about at the end of August,

and we haven't stopped hearing about it since.

It was the Surgeon General's advisory on parents and their stress.

In this advisory he shares, quote,

parents have a profound impact on the health of our children

and health of society, yet parents and caregivers

today face tremendous pressures from familiar stressors such as worrying about their

kids health and safety and financial concerns to new challenges like

navigating technology and social media, a youth mental health crisis, an epidemic of loneliness that has hit young people the hardest.

As a father of two kids, I feel the pressure too. With this advisory I am calling for a

fundamental shift and how we value and prioritize the mental health and well being of parents.

I'm also outlining policies, programs, and individual actions we can all take to support parents and caregivers."

Now the US Surgeon General is Dr Vivick Murphy.

I highly recommend even reading an article that I'm going to link and it's actually from the

federal government's help and advisory website.

I don't know how to say that.

If that's all you can read, I think it's going to give you a good overview.

The reason why I wanted to talk about this today is yes it's all over the internet

but too I think it wasn't really that much of a surprise at least not for me or any of us as parents. In this advisory they share that parents

have been more consistently likely to report experience high of

experiencing high levels of stress compared to other adults.

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