“Why the Kids Aren’t Alright” with Dr Billy Garvey

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps

Josh Szeps

Comedy Interviews, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Comedy

4.6 • 863 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

What's up with kids these days? ADHD. Autism. Bullying. Toxic boys. Self-harming girls. Social media addiction. Coddled teens. Anxious parents. A lot of folks are wringing their hands about the young-un's mental health. Josh thought he'd pick the brain of one of the world's leading experts who actually works at the coalface with troubled kids. Dr Billy Garvey is a senior specialist in child mental health at one of the largest tertiary paediatric hospitals in the world.

Billy challenges many of Josh's assumptions about parenting and childhood. He's a fascinating, insightful, riveting guy whose own podcast about raising kids is called Pop Culture Parenting. His show is blowing up in Australia as parents crave simple, evidence-based strategies to raise tiny mewling lizard-people into flourishing human beings.

Billy's new book is Ten Things I Wish You Knew About Your Child’s Mental Health. Enjoy.

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0:00.0	Goody, humans. Welcome to the safe space for dangerous ideas. Here's a dangerous idea for you.
0:07.6	How do you take a tiny human, a tiny writhing, mulling, screaming, pooing, farting, vomiting, burping,
0:16.1	lizard creature and turn it into a fully fledged, upstanding, happy, healthy, mentally balanced member of society.
0:24.5	Parenting, it is tricky, and this is one of the most fascinating conversations I've had in a
0:30.2	very long time.
0:31.1	It's one of the longest episodes we've ever done of the show, because I just could not stop
0:35.0	talking.
0:35.5	It's totally riveting.
0:37.1	Dr. Billy Garvey is a developmental
0:40.0	pediatrician. He has over 20 years experience working with children. He's a senior specialist
0:46.0	at one of the biggest pediatric hospitals in the world, which is located here in Australia.
0:52.7	So he sees the front line of family dysfunction,
0:57.5	how our kids are doing, whether they're doing okay,
1:00.0	whether they're not doing okay.
1:01.2	And this is really not just a conversation for parents or about parents.
1:04.5	It's about being human and about the kind of reinforcements that we need,
1:08.3	the kind of support that we need,
1:10.6	what the hell is going on
1:11.8	with attention deficit in children and the rise in autism, the sort of battle between whether
1:18.5	or not we should treat each other as snowflakes versus whether we should be disciplinarians
1:22.6	towards each other, especially towards kids, or whether that's actually, in fact, a false
1:26.7	binary.
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