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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So they have this kind of like long range view that I think a lot of us had a cushion away from when we were when we were younger.
Um
Somewhere in the book I mention the disappearance of the tween.
Um and I the the reason I bring that up is that I I think that that cushion between childhood and adolescence that that a lot of us had the luxury of
Kids don't have that luxury any longer.
You know, they they move very quickly and abruptly from the innocence of childhood and that lack of self-awareness and that lack of awareness of mental illness or suffering to kind of a pretty hard stop in this awareness, like, oh, I think I might be depressed.
I don't like the way I look, you know, and this is happening at eight or nine or ten, not twelve or thirteen or four.
14 now.
And those young minds are really not very well prepared to take that on, so they get overwhelmed pretty easily.
I think you're right.
I think that's the trick of parenting today.
I love I love Julie Lithim's book as well.
Um, and and she spoke at a Todd and Kathy's conference last year and I got to meet her and talk to her about this a little bit.
And um and she would agree that yes, you know, you want to build that scaffolding, but there are new challenges to that.
So there's this little bit of a high wire act in parenting.
Where you want to create some degree of safety, you want to keep communication open, but you do have to be informed about the challenge, some of the challenges at least that your child is facing, because a lot of them they're facing without your awareness, in complete silence, in the dark, in their room, or with their friends.
And so when they present a certain way to us, we can make easy assumptions.
that, oh, you're just being obstinate, you're being difficult, why won't you focus on school?
Why won't you sign up for the thing?
You know, like what why are you making life so difficult without recognizing, oh, they're already reaching the end of their bandwidth.
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