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This is On Point. I'm Magnit Chakrabardi. Parents in America are stressed out.

I just think it's so much harder to raise human beings than it was when I was younger.

I have to worry that my kids might get shot at school today.

I have to think about that every day.

What if I'm the one that

gets shot today while I'm at work? How are they going to live? And then some of us are still

exhausted from COVID? Oh yeah, not on the new parenting experience of policing kids on screens.

I feel like admits everything going on with my health that I haven't made my kids feel as important

or loved.

And I do my best to do that, but I do feel like it's just never enough.

The day-to-day stresses of dealing with the outbursts and the yelling and the screaming,

it just wears me and my husband out.

Surprisingly, even though my son is 35, I'm still very stressed out because I worry about him every single day.

I'd say a lot of us millennials reach for our phones to be stressed, whether that's social

media, playing games, and alcohol being a temporary band-aid to the stressors.

I'm a stressed-out parent. I would love help and I've reached out, but I believe it is an

epidemic and it's a little reassuring to hear that other parents are struggling as well.

You just heard On Point listeners Bonnie Bigler, Christine McManus von Gunden,

Samantha Turner, Heather Sturman, Mary, Ginny Hoskins, and Kerry Boreski,

calling us from Georgia, Colorado, Indiana, Utah, and Washington State.

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