765: #765 - How to Raise Anti-Fragile Kids: Dr. Leonard Sax
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🗓️ 11 November 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Leonard Sax (M.D., Ph.D.) is a physician, psychologist, speaker, and best selling writer. In this episode, Preston and Dr. Sax talk about why kids are growing up much more fragile and unhealthy (mentally and physically). Part of it has to do with parents who are coddling their kids and shrinking back from establishing God-given parental authority. Lack of boundaries on screen-time (and content) also plays a significant role in the epidemic of anxiety, depression, and suicidality among kids. Sax is also a leading expert in sex and gender theories, especially as it pertains to trans* identities and experiences, something he’s written about in his latest edition of his book “Why Gender Matters” (2017). Both of these topics--kids and gender--come together and shape Sax’s concern for some disturbing things going on in the medical field regarding kids who identify as trans*.
More from Dr. Leonard Sax
www.leonardsax.com
Why Gender Matters
Why Stinky Socks May Bother Women More Than Men.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends, thanks for joining me on another episode of Theology and Rob. |
| 0:05.2 | My guest today is a author, speaker, doctor, and medical researcher. I have on the show today the one and only Leonard |
| 0:16.5 | Sachs. You might have heard of Leonard Sachs through one of his best-selling books, |
| 0:24.0 | Girls on Edge, Boys Adrift, |
| 0:26.7 | or the New York Times Best Seller, |
| 0:28.2 | the Collapse of Parenting, |
| 0:30.8 | or also he wrote another book called Why Gender Matters, which is the book that I've enjoyed the most. |
| 0:37.8 | I mean, I've enjoyed, well I've only read two of the four books, but this one really stands out to me I really gleaned a |
| 0:45.3 | ton from it I recommend it to a lot of people but Leonard Sachs has been I mean yeah he is as you will see so incredibly knowledgeable I mean the dude |
| 0:56.2 | graduated from MIT MIT at the age of 19 went on to do it both a an MD and a PhD. He is incredibly wise and very knowledgeable, |
| 1:10.0 | and a very clear speaker, which I've really appreciated from him sometimes people that are so |
| 1:15.0 | smart and so educated they don't communicate very clearly but Leonard Sachs is definitely an exception to that typical rule. |
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