What's New at PBA - August 21, 2025
August 21st, 2025
Learning How to Be in Relationship Central to the Learning at PBA
When I was seventeen and in my senior year, nothing mattered more to me than friendship. Forging relationships beyond the parental ken while busily imagining college life and working to craft the skills I would need there in common cause with my friends brought levels of happiness, frustration, and feeling that seemed important and vital.
Thirty-some-odd years later, the opportunities for schools to steward the development of skills in relationship for students are more important than ever. We said the internet made the world smaller. Social media gave us access to our pasts, present, and networks in ever-present rapid fashion. And yet, teens today have poorer mental health profiles and report feeling lonelier than ever.
