Hurried Child Syndrome

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🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to my morning monologue.
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0:18.6	Remember, you can hear my radio program daily on Sirius XM Triumph and connect with me 24-7
0:26.2	at Dr.ora.com. All right. I want to talk about the hurried child syndrome because it's
0:33.7	epidemic. Your parents are turning into maniacs.
0:41.0	Every friend I have who has kids
0:43.9	is sort of in this.
0:49.7	When I grew up, I don't know, after school, you found things to do.
0:52.0	Kids are so structured today because you folks are determined they should have
0:56.6	all the options to be the best, the fastest, the smartest, the most successful, to have
1:04.7	both friends. You know, in yesteryear, you just threw your kids out of the house in the afternoon and said,
1:11.6	come back for dinner.
1:12.6	For dinner.
1:13.6	That was it.
1:14.6	That was my instruction, be here for dinner.
1:17.6	And somehow we always were.
1:20.6	Now it's all structured, scheduled, and very intense.
1:25.6	One of the reasons we have a lot of anxious, depressed kids.
1:34.9	We're making kids act like many adults instead of kids. Generally, it's the parents pushing their
1:43.9	offspring to achieve beyond their age. Even though
1:48.4	we're not looking at it that way, we think we're just providing wonderful options. But research
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