Kids and teens are facing a mental health crisis.

Because of my work, I get a lot of questions about how to raise resilient kids—but I don’t have kids! I can extrapolate advice from research all day, but I have no clue what it’s like in the trenches.

So I called one of the world’s foremost experts on what parents can do to raise resilient kids.

He walked me through the seven tenets of building stable, competent, awesome humans.