Rosalind Wiseman: Overcoming the Relentless Pressure of Perfectionism and Social Status

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 19 February 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Middle and high school is a pressure-packed time full of constant rejection and stress. Rosalind Wiseman is a parenting educator and is famously the author of the book that was the basis of the film Mean Girls. She’s dealt with the psychology of grade school kids for years and knows the difficulties of navigating that world. Take a listen to her thoughts and concerns about the world in which these young people live in our latest episode!

Rosalind Wiseman is a parenting educator and author of several publications. She’s the author of the New York Times best-selling book Queen Bees and Wannabes, which was the basis for the film Mean Girls.

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0:00.0	You know, I mean there's a difference between having high social status and having high social status and using that social status to make other people miserable.
0:07.0	So I think the former that I think if you, if people who don't have social status look at those people then you sort of yeah it's like their lives are perfect it's easy things are easy and those kids do not necessarily have it easy at all
0:21.5	They're just a lot of them are just really good at hiding the struggles that they're going
0:24.9	through, which is one of those things where, I mean, you know, I just feel like I have to say
0:28.4	this because the research we're getting and the experiences I'm having as a teacher and an educator
0:34.5	and around the country is so powerful is that you know one of the things that's so
0:38.9	infuriating about like the news clips when some young person has committed suicide is they always
0:44.2	find somebody who says they just had a smile every day they I just never would have
0:48.8	thought that this was happening like all this up and that's because young people are really good at
0:54.8	pretend showing up to school every day feeling miserable and
0:58.9	pretending that they're fine and because we don't want to ask the hard questions adults don't want to ask the hard questions, adults don't want to ask the hard
1:05.2	questions that would get the answers of why young people are feeling so stressed and so miserable. You know, we're never going to, we're not really going to figure it out.
1:15.0	If we don't have the, we literally do not have the strength and the courage and maturity to
1:20.1	look at the questions and we're never going to be able to be able to handle this problem.
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