So, how are you feeling? Oh, stop it. I'm Scott A. with Bill Whittle and Stephen Green,

and this episode of Right Angle is brought to you by the members at Bill Whittle.com.

And gentlemen, there was a headline in the Wall Street Journal that caught my eye that said,

Stop constantly asking your kids how they feel.

And I thought this is interesting. Now, apparently this is a

growing phenomenon among parents especially with parents asking kids questions like, hey, Johnny,

are you enjoying your ice cream? Are you excited about school? Did you have fun at the park?

And there's an author of a new book, her name is Abigail Shrier.

Her book is called Bad Therapy, Why Kids Aren't Growing Up.

And basically, she says, asking kids about their feelings is almost always a negative thing to do and you should just leave them

alone. Stop prying into their emotional life. Stephen Green, one of the reasons, and I know you're a

dad's, you've probably seen this phenomenon, she says is if you want kids to be happy, the last thing you should do is to communicate that happiness is the goal.

That's just not how it works.

Who needs that kind of pressure?

Yeah.

And she said basically she said the message you should be sending to your kids is emotions are malleable, feelings are

unreliable, and diagnosing what's right or wrong with your life based on your feelings is a

terrible way of going about it. If we're always asking about how your kids are feeling, Steve,

we're basically giving kids the impression that this imperfect

signal is a valid way to gauge how you should act or how life is going.

Do you think that this psychiatrist author is an insensitive B word, or do you think that

there's something to be said for stepping away from the

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