Three Teas for Budding Scholars and Doting Parents

Three Teas for Budding Scholars and Doting Parents

They’re mini adults now. High schoolers drive, hold jobs waiting tables and cutting lawns, register to vote and cook for themselves. And many of them devote loads of hours to studying, too. In high school, it’s time to get serious.

That applies to parents of high schoolers, too. The kids may be budding grown-ups, but they still need guidance — even if they don’t know it. During high school, the little ones who made who made hand turkeys for Thanksgiving in elementary school, and thrilled to an afternoon at the mall in middle school, are shaping their futures. Parental assistance for the final push into adulthood? Highly recommended.

Tea delivers myriad benefits

Tea doesn’t stand as an important component of successful navigation through high school for students and parents. But we think it can serve as an assistant — and both students and parents need all of the help they can get!

Tea can stimulate mental activity, fostering creativity and focus. It can steady nerves, soothe anxiety, calm upset stomachs, boost endurance and help carry sippers into deep sleeps. Why not call on tea’s diverse catalogue of superpowers to lend students and parents hands during the four-year journey?

High school can be exhausting.

Some beverages, like coffee, offer a diversity of flavors and pleasures, but the effects are fairly uniform. They enhance energy. We embrace anything that puts more zip in our steps, and that includes coffee. But tea incorporates a world of botanicals, like lavender, chamomile, turmeric and much more, that address other desires, such as promoting sleep. As such, we think tea is an ideal partner for scholarly pursuits, as well as for the people — hi, parents! — who are working hard to keep their kids on the right track as they sink into the teenage years and prepare to bid them goodbye.

Consider the following three teas, for kids and parents both, to get through the high school years.


Back To School Teas for Students: Rocky Mountain Huckleberry

Rocky Mountain Huckleberry offers both bold and fruit flavors.

There’s a good chance the high schoolers already enjoy coffee drinks, which means they like strong flavors, and they appreciate the caffeine zing. Here’s a perfect tea introduction for them: a Sri Lankan black tea, blended with freeze-dried raspberries, raspberry leaves, rosehip pieces, cornflowers and natural huckleberry flavor. 

Our Rocky Mountain Huckleberry not only stands as a flavor home run, it also deliver benefits to the body. For example, raspberry leaves are rich in minerals and vitamins, including B vitamins and C, and minerals like potassium, magnesium, zinc, phosphorous and iron. The combination introduces powerful antioxidants, which help fight cell-damaging free radicals. 

Rosehips are another robust source of antioxidants, which aid the immune system, help achieve weight loss goals, reduce joint pain, offer heat protection and encourage healthy skin. The combination of bold flavor from the Sri Lankan tea and complex flavors from the other botanicals, and health-promoting natural ingredients, makes Rocky Mountain Huckleberry a superb tea choice for high schoolers.


Back To School Teas for Parents: Cloud Forest White Tea

Parents, this combination of low-caffeine white tea and an explosion of flowers is made for all-day sipping.

We understand the morning blahs. You binge-watched a favorite show, didn’t fall asleep until 11:32, got out of bed at 6:07 and now you are shuffling to the kitchen, trying to remember how many Zoom calls demand your time across the day. You want caffeine. 

Six hours later, after lunch, you desire something delicious and healthy that contains a little bit of zip — but not too much. 

Cue our Cloud Forest White Tea. This delicate, nuanced tea finds its base with white tea, a style of Chinese tea that is comprised entirely of leaf buds covered with white hairs, and is not oxidized. The white tea, which contains relatively small amounts of caffeine, gets complemented by rosehips, hibiscus, sunflower, cornflower, osmanthus, rose, safflower and calendula. Now THAT’S a floral tea! Cloud Forest White Tea is gentle on the stomach, it doesn’t make sippers jittery with caffeine, and we think it’s perfect for all-day sipping — especially for parents seeking a little help along the afternoon.


Back To School Teas for Parents: Decaf Jasmine Green Tea

Improve your evenings, parents, with this decaf jasmine green tea. Delicious, and soothing.

The morning was rough. But after a long day of work and counseling the high schooler about the wonders of pre-calculus or the history of indigenous people in New Mexico, it’s time for a bit of smooth unwinding. Given this tea’s combination of pleasant flavors — grassy green tea complemented with floral jasmine from real blossoms — we think it’s an ideal evening beverage. Here, we only use green tea that has been decaffeinated using C02, a gentle and natural process that removes the chemical compound caffeine without damaging the flavor or aromatic integrity of the tea. It’s spectacular and doesn’t taste manipulated or off, as with many caffeine-free teas and coffees.

Enjoy these last years with the young one at home! Before you know it, he will be headed off to college in California, and she will enroll at a university in New England.

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