By Dr. Gaby Cora

Do you work through strengths or through weaknesses?

Years ago I was chatting with a more senior executive in Corporate America. I mentioned my love of medicine and its integration with business and my dislike of the more tedious financial reports. She immediately said I should focus on developing skills in the accounting and financial aspects of my work, leaving aside my forte as I shouldn’t focus on my strengths but on my weaknesses, she said.

By Dr. Gaby Cora

Do our kids stress more than we did when we were young?

Just as an example, if you feel swamped with the blessings and curses that instant technology brings to you, what about their situation? They have been born in the technology boom.

In addition, there are great disparities in the world of these children: those born into homes where they are well-taken care of and those who have experienced and lived atrocities that no adult or child should ever experience.

The stress children experience nowadays may be different to the stress kids exerienced thirty, fifty or one hundred years ago.

Back then, we would have been asked to snap out of it.

This new generation is more knowledgeable and accepting of mental health problems, medical issues and societal issues. On the other end, many worry about this generation’s work ethics, resilience and openness.

Thoughts?

By Dr. Gaby Cora

My husband and I are wealthy. Our kids don’t need to ever work in their lifetimes. While our older children are interested in many things, we are alarmed at one of our son’s lack of interest in pursuing any major purpose. Any thoughts?

You raise an interesting dilemma: you have provided for your sons and daughters in a way that they won’t need to ever make a living and, on the other end, you have somewhat taken away their hunger, that drive to achieve beyond their needs. Many kids in the younger generations have been brought up in affluence with the “I want, I get” mentality. What to do?