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Opinion
School Psychology Staff Function Exactly Like Corporate DEI Departments
“Because the psych staffs are like the DEI staffs of an organ, of a corporation. That's what the psych staff now is at a school. They effectively run the schools. They pass judgment on everything. They control what a teacher can assign. What kind of test a teac…”
Abigail Shrier May 21, 2024 ▶ 1:13:44 Abigail Shrier: Why the Kids Aren’t Alright
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
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
Opinion
The Mental Health Industry Has Systematically Stripped Parents of Their Confidence
“They have so little confidence right now because we've done, because the mental health industry has done everything it can to divest them of any sense that they know what they're doing.”
Abigail Shrier May 21, 2024 ▶ 22:15 Abigail Shrier: Why the Kids Aren’t Alright
Opinion
Stimulants Are Overprescribed to Children Before Making Basic Environmental Adjustments
“There may be kids who need the stimulant, but stimulants are profound, and they are given out way, way too readily without first seeing if we can make adjustments in the child's environment to help them, you know, handle their distractibility.”
Abigail Shrier May 21, 2024 ▶ 41:03 Abigail Shrier: Why the Kids Aren’t Alright
Opinion
Schools Face a Massive Conflict of Interest Managing Student Mental Health
“There is a major conflict of interest with schools getting involved in mental health. Huge conflict of interest. Should never have been allowed.”
Abigail Shrier May 21, 2024 ▶ 51:37 Abigail Shrier: Why the Kids Aren’t Alright
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
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
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
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
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