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Why Therapy is Bad For Kids (Unless They Really Need It)
Why we need to stop making youth development so therapeutic and why it can be damaging to reach for therapy and diagnoses when they aren't necessary.
Apr 16
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When Experience is the Only Teacher
"Experience blockers," lessons from CBT, and the vital path to emotional and social development. This path is vital to both adults and children.
Apr 9
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How to Delay the Age at Which Kids Get Smartphones
A smartphone-free childhood is easier than you think.
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Apr 3
March 2024
We Should Be Concerned That Kids Aren't Getting Hurt
Why positive sounding data is actually worrisome and other arguments for the barbarian virtues. Plus one great podcast and three related posts.
Mar 29
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We Should Be Concerned That Kids Aren't Getting Hurt
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The Barbarian Virtues Still Matter
Why we still need to focus on creating the type of people who are "invaluable in a shipwreck."
Mar 26
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Shane Trotter
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Why I Want Your Kid to Have Misfortunes (From the Archives)
The childhoods of great people, lessons from trees mysteriously falling over, and how our perceptions determine whether events will help or harm us.
Mar 19
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What's Death Got to Do With Growing Up?
Rules For a Knight, Memento Mori, Steve Jobs, CS Lewis, and other reflections on the benefits of thinking about death.
Mar 14
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Shane Trotter
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4 Powerful Parenting Practices That Most Avoid
After writing Bad Therapy, Abigail Shrier learned that she needed to do a number of things differently with her own children.
Mar 5
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Shane Trotter
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February 2024
How Therapy Culture and Socio-Emotional Learning Curriculums Can Harm Our Kids
Bad Therapy, victimhood culture, and creating "trauma" where it doesn't exist.
Feb 29
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Shane Trotter
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The Character Lab
A New Podcast series with Shane Trotter
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Feb 26
Marshall McLuhan on Why Content Moderation is a Red Herring
Those senate hearings were conducted within the “numb stance of the technological idiot”
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Feb 23
Choices that Reveal Character
Risk aversion is killing romance, why it pays to spend less on the wedding ring, and other quick thoughts on relationships, values, and the life well…
Feb 21
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