Courtney Balaker

We do a little bit, and it's very well spoken through Jonathan Haidt, actually. You can even track it back to the disappearance of Adam Walsh, which was a horrific kidnapping of a little boy from Sears back in the 70s and the milk carton era. And parents were basically told, your child will be abducted. and instituting this fear. I have it. I'm guilty of it.

We do a little bit, and it's very well spoken through Jonathan Haidt, actually. You can even track it back to the disappearance of Adam Walsh, which was a horrific kidnapping of a little boy from Sears back in the 70s and the milk carton era. And parents were basically told, your child will be abducted. and instituting this fear. I have it. I'm guilty of it.

I have huge problems not seeing my 10-year-old son at the park for four minutes. I panic. I'm just so used to that instinct to not let him be free range, not let him. To answer your question, yeah, I think a lot of it does come from parenting and parents wanting themselves to be comforted and comfortable.

I have huge problems not seeing my 10-year-old son at the park for four minutes. I panic. I'm just so used to that instinct to not let him be free range, not let him. To answer your question, yeah, I think a lot of it does come from parenting and parents wanting themselves to be comforted and comfortable.

So what makes me as the parent more comfortable is not necessarily the best thing for my child. You literally wire the brain when you are up against conflict, when you're doing something difficult, when you're uncomfortable, because you have to react to it, you have to adjust to it.

So what makes me as the parent more comfortable is not necessarily the best thing for my child. You literally wire the brain when you are up against conflict, when you're doing something difficult, when you're uncomfortable, because you have to react to it, you have to adjust to it.

And if we're just protecting people from being uncomfortable and doing hard things, then the brain just isn't wired to react to it appropriately. It's very dangerous. I think parenting is a huge problem. Hyde also talks about social media.

And if we're just protecting people from being uncomfortable and doing hard things, then the brain just isn't wired to react to it appropriately. It's very dangerous. I think parenting is a huge problem. Hyde also talks about social media.

Now, when Ted and I were growing up, we didn't have Facebook and Twitter and X. We didn't have our most embarrassing moments in our middle school years and our high school years on display forever. That matters, too. And. There could be a protectiveness, which I completely relate to as well from parents. Don't get your feelings hurt. When they do get their feelings hurt, it lives forever online.

Now, when Ted and I were growing up, we didn't have Facebook and Twitter and X. We didn't have our most embarrassing moments in our middle school years and our high school years on display forever. That matters, too. And. There could be a protectiveness, which I completely relate to as well from parents. Don't get your feelings hurt. When they do get their feelings hurt, it lives forever online.

There are a lot of different factors, but it's hard as a parent to say, yeah, my kid needs to fail. My kid needs to experience discomfort. You don't want to watch it, but we all did. We all grew up feeling uncomfortable. And that was really good for us. And we all failed and that's really good for us.

There are a lot of different factors, but it's hard as a parent to say, yeah, my kid needs to fail. My kid needs to experience discomfort. You don't want to watch it, but we all did. We all grew up feeling uncomfortable. And that was really good for us. And we all failed and that's really good for us.

What really struck us, as Ted mentioned, Greg is a very dear friend of ours. And we had known him for years until before he released this book with Hyatt. And we did not know that he was suffering from that level of depression. And we did not know he was contemplating suicide.

What really struck us, as Ted mentioned, Greg is a very dear friend of ours. And we had known him for years until before he released this book with Hyatt. And we did not know that he was suffering from that level of depression. And we did not know he was contemplating suicide.

We did not know he went to the lengths as detailed in the book and the film, as Ted mentioned earlier, going to a hardware store to buy the plastic bags and the duct tape to end his own life. It was shocking. And it was heartbreaking because we just didn't know that our dear friend was going through this.

We did not know he went to the lengths as detailed in the book and the film, as Ted mentioned earlier, going to a hardware store to buy the plastic bags and the duct tape to end his own life. It was shocking. And it was heartbreaking because we just didn't know that our dear friend was going through this.

And what we found as we started interviewing people, finding our young Gen Z interview subjects was really astonishing that so much of the depression, so much of the negative thinking that they were experiencing was so avoidable that And Greg, that's really what drew him to write the book with height. He's like, you know what was pushing me to suicide?

And what we found as we started interviewing people, finding our young Gen Z interview subjects was really astonishing that so much of the depression, so much of the negative thinking that they were experiencing was so avoidable that And Greg, that's really what drew him to write the book with height. He's like, you know what was pushing me to suicide?

The catastrophic thinking, the mind reading, all the things that we all do as human beings, which is normal. It's not generation specific. We all do it. The things that I was doing, I'm seeing happen on college campuses, catastrophic thinking, mind reading, us versus them. And I found my way out of it.

The catastrophic thinking, the mind reading, all the things that we all do as human beings, which is normal. It's not generation specific. We all do it. The things that I was doing, I'm seeing happen on college campuses, catastrophic thinking, mind reading, us versus them. And I found my way out of it.