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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

RAISING CRITICAL THINKERS

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

Health & Fitness, News, Society & Culture

4.93.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Educational therapist and author Shannon Kroner, Psy.D., debuts her new children’s book Let’s Be Critical Thinkers, teaching kids to question pandemic policies, research for themselves, and understand informed consent.

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0:00.0

Remember, I'm unvaccinated and it's okay by Shannon Croner.

0:05.3

It was huge, massive hit.

0:07.7

Well, guess what?

0:08.3

She's got a brand new one.

0:10.4

Let's be a critical thinkers.

0:12.9

Let's be critical thinkers.

0:14.3

And this one is awesome too.

0:17.0

How about having your kids read about how awesome it is to challenge the status quo?

0:21.3

Is what we're seeing on the news really true? How about those lockdowns? Did they really work?

0:26.1

All those things. Well, this is a nosy little girl that knows how to make a difference with her life.

0:31.4

And speaking of Shannon Croner, she joins me now, honor and pleasure. Shannon, I love this approach, by the way. Thank you. It's good to see you,

0:39.4

too. Children's books. It's really such a beautiful way to inject wisdom, I think both into the child,

0:47.5

but the parents that are reading it. But why was this book number two in this series?

0:52.6

Well, I love how you described her as a nosy little child because that's really kind of what

0:56.7

she is. She's curious. She's curious about the world around her and uses, you know, all the

1:03.9

different policies that we were, that were imposed on all of us throughout the pandemic and

1:09.0

teaches the reader how to do their own research and how to be

1:13.0

a critical thinker, what propaganda is, how to spot propaganda, and really important what

1:19.7

informed consent is because we saw zero informed consent throughout the pandemic.

1:24.4

Yeah. Well, I'll be honest, you know, you made her a girl, but I think this was me as a kid. I've said it before. You know, I've grown up being nosy. I've been asking questions. I was that annoying four-year-old that refused to sit at the kitty table. I wanted to sit at the adult table. I promised I'd be quiet. I would just

1:44.5

listen in. Of course, I would hold on a second and then start asking questions. I love kids like

1:50.6

that. I've been interviewing people my whole life. I've been questioning people my whole life.

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