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Amy Edelstein invites listeners to rethink summer for teenagers, emphasizing presence over optimization.

Send us Fan Mail Summer is supposed to feel like space, yet so many families enter the break with the same tight grip they used all school year. I’m Amy Edelstein, and I’m inviting you to consider a different kind of summer for teenagers: less optimization, more presence. When life is overscheduled and overstimulated, the mind loses the room it needs to roam, integrate, and create. When there’s slack in the day, something surprising happens problems quietly solve themselves, imagination retur...

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