Dr. John Duffy
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736 appearances
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first heard Oct 2019
last heard Jan 2025
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I'm really proud of that book.
And that was really about
parenting free as we can of our own fear, our own judgment, and our own ego.
And really, I kind of left it at that, like, if you can do that and stay in that lane, then you're available to your kids in the way they need you to be and you're fine.
So that came out in 2011.
And in the last eight years since then, maybe four or five years, there's been such a dramatic shift in the landscape of adolescence to the point where I think the talks we were saving for 12 or 13, we now have to have at eight or nine.
Adolescence now stretches in my mind to the early 20s because a lot of the challenges of adolescence we have trouble meeting because of what I call in the book identity traffic and a few other factors.
that plague the late adolescent.
And I do think that these kids are dealing with a whole new set of stressors that no other group of teenagers before them has had to deal with.
And even the stressors we dealt with when we were kids, they're amplified now in ways that I think a lot of people in my generation, a lot of parents
just don't have a good grasp on.
And so that's why I wrote the second book, Parenting the New Teen in the Age of Anxiety, to kind of just highlight that for parents.
Here's some of the stuff you don't know, here's some things you can do with that, and
More stuff is going to come along that you don't know.
And so here's a way to talk to your children about that as well as those things rear their heads because some of this stuff is really scary.
And I'm struck by what we don't know as parents.
I'm so glad you focused on the psychic pain piece because there's a number of things that we see our kids doing.
They're on YouTube, they're on their phones, they're disengaged somehow, they're up in their rooms.
There's these behavioral things that you kind of notice.
And and parents can ask questions about that night I kind of talk a lot about those things and the vaping and all this other stuff that's kind of hitting the headlines now But the psychic pain that more than anything else is what I want parents to be able to recognize has changed and shifted dramatically in the last few years and there's a number of reasons in my experience for that one is that I
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