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The Ben Shapiro Show

Resisting Indoctrination | Abigail Shrier

The Ben Shapiro Show

The Daily Wire

News, News Commentary

4.4152.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Ben sat down with author Abigail Shrier to discuss her new book 'Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up,' in which Shrier discusses the troubling trend of weaponizing mental health in education and parenting, and explores how an excessive focus on therapy tends to medicalize normal challenges faced by children. So, is the current trend in health practices transforming ordinary childhood challenges into pathological issues? Join us as we delve into this and much more on this episode of The Sunday Special.   - - -    Today’s Sponsors:   Helix Sleep - Get up to $350 OFF + 2 FREE pillows with all mattress orders: https://helixsleep.com/BEN   Good Ranchers - Secure your price shield until 2026 and get an extra 10% off with promo code SHAPIRO at https://www.goodranchers.com   PreBorn! - Help save 17,000 babies from abortion: https://www.preborn.com/Ben Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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conditions apply. Parents who are so desperate not to say no to their kids are now outsourcing this

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problem to the therapy profession. The school counselors, the school psychologist, were so undermining parents' confidence.

1:13.5

They weren't trusting themselves. And in fact, since I've written the book, I am inundated

1:18.5

with letters from parents thanking me that they don't have to feel guilty anymore when they

1:24.4

punish a child for bad behavior. See, the therapeutic experts had so convinced them that they would traumatize the kid if they took away their smartphone or engaged in any other discipline, that parents were afraid to do it.

1:37.0

Today, we're privileged to host Abigail Shrier once again, a Yale-educated journalist and author whose incisive critique of modern sociocultural trends

1:44.4

has positioned her at the forefront of some of today's most heated debates.

1:48.6

Abigail Schreier's career trajectory is as impressive as it has been impactful.

1:52.8

After obtaining her undergrad degree from Columbia University, she further honed her

1:56.2

critical thinking skills at Oxford University, where she delved into philosophy.

1:59.9

Following her time at Oxford, Abigail attended Yale Law School, where she not only mastered

2:03.6

the intricacies of law, but also developed a keen sense for the underlying societal implications

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