The New York Times’ newest conservative columnist, David French, has already made his opinion on Twitchy very clear after lifting up the rock we live under. So maybe French won’t see that we’re commending him for his choice of subject for his Sunday column. He’s worried about the increase in anxiety and even suicidal ideation among teenagers, and he’s right: we don’t talk about it enough. French argues that the problem is coming from inside the house — parents are the ones who need to heal themselves so they can heal their children.
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“There’s a factor that’s received insufficient attention in the debate over external factors in teenage suffering,” writes @DavidAFrench. “What if parents are inadvertently contributing to their own kids’ pain?” https://t.co/DRjBdaAtwg
— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 19, 2023
French writes:
Just as there is a depressing familiarity to parents’ conversations about their children, there is a similar familiarity to kids’ conversations about their parents. I spend much of my time traveling to college campuses, both secular and religious, and I hear a similar refrain all the time: “Something happened to my parents.” Sometimes (especially at elite schools) they share stories about parents obsessed with their kids’ education. More often I hear about parents consumed by politics. And at the extreme end, I hear stories about the impact of conspiracy theories of all kinds. Just as parents are upset about their children’s anxiety and depression, children are anxious about their parents’ mental health.
We too hear about parents consumed by politics. Just the other day, President Joe Biden responded to a 4-year-old who wrote to him distressed about the gender wage gap … wonder where she got that? And back in 2019, adults in Canada pushed the #18to8 campaign to lower the voting age to 8 so that “climate change is on top of the ballot.” How many kids have anxiety because mom and dad aren’t driving an electric car yet?
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I help by telling my kids they can’t play with children of conservatives because they hate gay people and black people. I also remind them that they probably won’t live to be adults because of global warming. I mask them 24/7 and won’t let them talk to an unvaxxed kids.
— 🫃🏼💉🇺🇦Hollaria Briden, Esq. (@HollyBriden) March 20, 2023
MAKE SURE YOU ARE TAKING THEM TO MORE DRAG SHOWS!
— Bradley Laborman (@BradmanTV) March 20, 2023
There used to be a distinguishable division between 'adult problems' and 'parenting.'
It seems these days, more and more parents are blending the two.
— sW (@StrangeWorldddd) March 19, 2023
Point to a time in human history where parents were not the bane of a teenager's existence. We contribute to their hormonal angst and pain simply by existing as safeguards as they try to figure out the world. This is an intellectually lazy piece, even for you @DavidAFrench
— Actual Woman called Loretta (@Amor0mniaVincit) March 19, 2023
Interesting how mental illness is running rampant because it spreads in the population like a virus. Gen Z is getting freaked out by totally weird issues like gender fluidity and the world ending due to climate change even tho these were barely a blip to their parents.
— Jill Bradley (@poursugar0nme) March 20, 2023
Speaking of kids’ mental health, how many parents (and teachers) are filling kids’ minds with the idea they should be gender-fluid?
The real national epidemic is Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy https://t.co/hncyXAD0Pi
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) March 20, 2023
Preach.
— The Pro From Dover (@GermanShepher10) March 20, 2023
It’s a totally coincidental phenomenon that parents with purple hair are far more likely to have multiple trans kids. We aren’t sure why this happens.
— Madmartigan (@marcinko210) March 20, 2023
The most extreme case of Munchausen by Proxy I've ever seen, and it got a TV show.https://t.co/VlMVGOk8Re
— Helot 🚩 (@Helot_) March 20, 2023
We’ve normalized a psychological pathology.
— RifleShooterForJesus (@RSFJ08) March 20, 2023
Parents who push their politics on their kids aren’t doing them any favors, but even the ones who try to leave their kids out of it send them to public schools where teachers with purple hair and nose piercings are doing it.
Speaking of anxiety, here’s the paper French works for today:
Breaking News: Earth is likely to cross a critical global warming threshold within the next decade unless drastic changes are made, a major UN report said.https://t.co/Mkb8l3Ry24 pic.twitter.com/tD1DImteEa
— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 20, 2023
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