Abigail Shrier

14 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 12 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 21, 2024 by Abigail Shrier · across every show →

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May 21, 2024 negative
Assertion Supported
Studies Show Kids Excluded From Social-Emotional Learning Have Lower Anxiety
“Researchers in Australia and England actually tested this, separate groups of researchers, and they were able to show that the kids in the control group who didn't go through these practices ended up happier, better adjusted, better in, in terms of depression …”
Abigail Shrier May 21, 2024 ▶ 19:07 Abigail Shrier: Why the Kids Aren’t Alright
May 21, 2024 negative
Opinion
Public School Teachers and Counselors Are Playing Therapist With Students
“Their mandate is trauma-informed care across public schools, social, emotional learning, and parent, teachers and counselors, armies of counselors are playing shrink with the kids all day long.”
Abigail Shrier May 21, 2024 ▶ 13:03 Abigail Shrier: Why the Kids Aren’t Alright
May 21, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Replicated Studies Show Authoritative Parenting Yields the Best Child Outcomes
“And this study has been replicated hundreds of times. Authoritative parenting produces the best kids in terms of success, emotional well-being, and even close, eventual closeness with mom and dad, and, or parents, whoever the parents may be.”
Abigail Shrier May 21, 2024 ▶ 16:49 Abigail Shrier: Why the Kids Aren’t Alright
May 21, 2024 positive
Insight
Mental Health Is a Byproduct of Living Well, Not Direct Work
“Mental health is not something you work on. It's something that happens while you're living a good life.”
Abigail Shrier May 21, 2024 ▶ 1:11:44 Abigail Shrier: Why the Kids Aren’t Alright
May 21, 2024 negative
Opinion
Young People Are Pathologizing Normal Emotions With Clinical Diagnoses
“The rising generation never says it's shy. They say they have social phobia. They never say they're sad. They say they're depressed. They never say, gosh, they went through a tough time in middle school. They say they have PTSD. They're speaking the language o…”
Abigail Shrier May 21, 2024 ▶ 12:17 Abigail Shrier: Why the Kids Aren’t Alright
May 21, 2024 negative
Opinion
Mental Health Experts Have Weakened Youth Resilience by Controlling Family Life
“So I think it's all essentially bad therapy, and this is why, because who's in charge? Who's running the show? And today with children, with families, it really is the mental health experts.”
Abigail Shrier May 21, 2024 ▶ 12:05 Abigail Shrier: Why the Kids Aren’t Alright
May 21, 2024 negative
Insight
Children Need Adult Authority, Not Universal Emotional Affirmation
“So the last thing we want to do is what we've been doing is affirm every one of their emotions, no matter how Extreme or dysregulated and then talk to them as if we're all just, you know, feelers here. We're all just emotional feelers trying to understand each…”
Abigail Shrier May 21, 2024 ▶ 15:25 Abigail Shrier: Why the Kids Aren’t Alright
May 21, 2024 negative
Opinion
Gen Z Workers Will Complain to HR If Their Feelings Are Hurt
“And we're seeing even as, you know, the young, this young rising generation goes off to the workplace, if you, if their feelings are hurt at the workplace, they will complain to HR and try to get their boss fired. That seems to them a reasonable response To so…”
Abigail Shrier May 21, 2024 ▶ 8:08 Abigail Shrier: Why the Kids Aren’t Alright
May 21, 2024 negative
Assertion Supported
Teachers Report Experiencing Unprecedented Levels of Classroom Tantrums
“Teachers report that elementary school kids and even high school kids are throwing tantrums in the classroom like they've never seen before.”
Abigail Shrier May 21, 2024 ▶ 7:59 Abigail Shrier: Why the Kids Aren’t Alright
May 21, 2024 negative
Opinion
Virtually Any Activity Yields Better Mental Health Than SEL Exercises
“Literally anything you could be doing would be better for your mental health than sitting around and doing these exercises.”
Abigail Shrier May 21, 2024 ▶ 1:11:39 Abigail Shrier: Why the Kids Aren’t Alright
May 21, 2024 negative
Opinion
The Only True Parenting Experts Are Those Who Raised Reliable Adults
“In my book, those are the only parenting experts. The ones who've actually done a good job of it.”
Abigail Shrier May 21, 2024 ▶ 1:18:28 Abigail Shrier: Why the Kids Aren’t Alright
May 21, 2024 negative
Insight
Diagnosing Ordinary Misbehavior Strips Children of Their Agency
“We would pathologize ordinary behaviors and treat them to see themselves as disordered. Oh, that's just, you know, you have ADHD. Oh, that's your oppositional defiance disorder. That's why you acted out. So instead of using the sort of lay terms we've always u…”
Abigail Shrier May 21, 2024 ▶ 7:13 Abigail Shrier: Why the Kids Aren’t Alright
May 21, 2024 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Controlled Studies Show Grieving People Suffer Worse Outcomes From Therapy
“There's a whole body of research that shows, you know, people who've gone through natural bereavement, the loss of a loved one, often feel worse after therapy. They did these controlled studies with You know, a control group who didn't, who lost a loved one, b…”
Abigail Shrier May 21, 2024 ▶ 31:17 Abigail Shrier: Why the Kids Aren’t Alright
May 21, 2024 negative
Insight
Prompting Children to Ruminate on Their Trauma Sabotages Their Resilience
“Instead, we tell the kids the opposite. Your parents are divorced. You've had trauma. Let's talk about it. It's the worst thing we could do for a kid who'd been through something hard.”
Abigail Shrier May 21, 2024 ▶ 28:59 Abigail Shrier: Why the Kids Aren’t Alright
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