Dr. John Duffy
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736 appearances
2 recordings
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first heard Oct 2019
last heard Jan 2025
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Well, kids are working through all that for sure, but they're also taking on, you know, all the world's problems.
And they're wondering like, am I ever going to make any impact on any of this?
Will I ever have the agency over any of this or the awful things that I'm hearing about?
Am I just kind of stuck with, you know, being kind of enfeebled and disempowered to do anything about that?
Will I be able to take care of my family?
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 younger.
Somewhere in the book, I mentioned the disappearance of the tween.
And the reason I bring that up is that I think that cushion between childhood and adolescence that a lot of us had the luxury of
Kids don't have that luxury any longer.
You know, 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 10, not 12 or 13 or 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 Lifcoff Hames book as well.
And she spoke at the Todd and Kathy's conference last year and I got to meet her and talk to her about this a little bit.
And 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 some of the challenges, at least, that your child
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