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Kids These Days: What's it like living with anxiety?

By • Jul 1, 2020
Katie Raymond / Michigan Radio

A note: We talk briefly about depression and suicide in this episode. If you or someone you know is experiencing mental health issues, we have a list of resources available to help here.

Kids these days are stressed. Really. They’re a lot more stressed than generations before them.

Millions of teens have an anxiety disorder, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.

Mira is one of those teens. She’s a sophomore at Community High School.

Stateside: Plasma antibody treatment; growing up in era of school shootings; Detroit’s lost students

By • Jun 24, 2020
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Today on Stateside, hospitals and health workers are still looking for ways to safely interact with patients following the first COVID-19 surge in Michigan. We check in with an epidemiologist who’s researching how plasma from recovered patients might help those at high risk of infection. Plus, we continue to look at what school might look like in the fall as the governor's Return to Learn Task Force wraps up its work and recommendations next week. 

Kids These Days: How has fear shaped our lives?

By • Jun 24, 2020
Katie Raymond / Michigan Radio

A note: In this episode we talk about school lockdown drills, which may not be appropriate for our younger listeners.

Gen Z is growing up in a world changed forever before they were even born by events like September 11 and Columbine.

They’ve also been hit with two defining events that will shape their lives in ways we can’t even anticipate: the looming threat of climate change, and the more immediate threat of COVID-19.

Kids These Days: What conversations are you having with your family about race?

By • Jun 17, 2020
students protesting in Ann Arbor
Emma Winowiecki / Michigan Radio

Three weeks after police killed George Floyd, teens have been out on the streets to protest police brutality and systemic racism.

Some people may wonder: why? What is motivating teens to step out, to speak up, and to demand change?

To try and answer that, let’s move out of the streets and into the home for just a moment.

Kids These Days: Mental health resources

By • Jun 16, 2020

If you or someone you know is facing immediate harm because of suicidal or homicidal thoughts or actions, please get help now:

‘Kids These Days,’ a new podcast by teens, about teens, premieres June 17

By • Jun 3, 2020
teenage hosts of the kids these days podcast
Katie Raymond / Michigan Radio

Teenagers. Always on their phones (but don’t know how to make a phone call). Endlessly curating their identities on Instagram. Unprepared for “the real world.” These are some of the stereotypes of Generation Z. But are they accurate? What are young people really thinking about, laughing about, and stressing about right now?

Missing friends and a sense of certainty: how two high schoolers are feeling during the pandemic

By • May 15, 2020
Scarlett London and Cate Weiser

"Bored, exhausted, and restless" probably describes how a lot of Michigan’s kids are feeling these days. They have been stuck at home for nearly two months now, ever since the COVID-19 outbreak shut down schools and hangouts. This week, we spoke with two of the million and a half young people who are adjusting to this new normal. 

Press Kit: Kids These Days

By • May 1, 2020
mazey perry
Katie Raymond / Michigan Radio

ABOUT KIDS THESE DAYS

Kids These Days is a podcast hosted by teens, about teens. What we're thinking about, laughing about, and stressing about. This new, limited-run show is a collaboration between Community High School in Ann Arbor and Michigan Radio.

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Are you a teen? Do you struggle with mental illness? We want to hear your coping mechanisms.

By • Mar 11, 2020

Michigan Radio is working on a new podcast by and about teens.

Are you a teen? Do you struggle with mental illness? We want to hear your coping mechanisms.

Call 734.408.1753 and leave us a message.