A Warning to all Parents You NEED to Hear! | The REAL Story with Dr. Phil

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Dr. Phil McGraw

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🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Parents… listen up. The way you're trying to protect your kids is quietly breaking them down. This is your wake-up call!

How Intensive Parenting Damages Childhood Mental Health:
https://substack.com/home/post/p-175947511

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0:00.0	I have some surprising information for parents of today's children.
0:05.7	We are seeing a huge paradoxical effect regarding the interaction between time spent
0:13.8	parenting and children's mental health showing up since the year 2000.
0:22.2	Today's real story is all about whether or not parents are helping or hurting by spending
0:31.5	more time with their children.
0:34.4	Why do I ask this question?
0:36.5	Well, parents are actually spending more time with their
0:39.3	children and are even focusing on their mood and emotions with greater intention than their own
0:47.0	parents did with them. Where did it come from? Since it wasn't modeled by today's parents, parents well maybe they just got sensitized to it who
0:58.0	knows but research shows that in the last 20 to 30 years parents have spent significantly more time
1:06.8	with their children even working moms today are spending as much time as stay-at-home moms spent
1:14.6	with their children back in the 70s. But here's the kicker. There are counterproductive results.
1:24.3	Even though today's parents may be spending more time and paying more attention to their children
1:31.5	and their children's mental health, the rate of childhood mental illness appears to be skyrocketing.
1:40.3	You heard me right.
1:41.6	Even though parents are spending more time and focusing more on their
1:45.7	child's mental health, mental illness appears to be skyrocketing.
1:51.2	So paradoxical, right?
1:53.6	More time?
1:54.9	Worse results.
1:56.2	Now, certainly, there's no ill intent here.
1:59.4	So what is going on? Let's look at headlines, not from the
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