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Nov 14, 2024 | 
nypost.com | Leonard Sax
Autism children and parents enjoy a Halloween-style fall festival Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024, at Carrie Fitts Real Estate in Tuscaloosa. Gary Cosby Jr.-Tuscaloosa News / Two weeks ago, a team of American researchers published a major report documenting an astonishing rise in the diagnosis of autism.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Leonard Sax
Nelly Furtado says being single at 45 is 'like a new beginning for me': 'I didn't really get to be single in my 20s'The Canadian pop star, 45, opened up about dating, body positivity and her music career on the Call Her Daddy podcast. Nelly Furtado is all about the …
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
firstthings.com | Mark Bauerlein |Leonard Sax
Conversations with Mark Bauerlein The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. joins in to discuss his new book, The Collapse of Parenting: How We Hurt Our Kids When We Treat Them Like Grown-Ups.
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Image by Benjamin Vautier, licensed via Creative Commons. Image cropped.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
nypost.com | Leonard Sax
I’m hearing from teachers who say that kids are getting more disrespectful. Is that for real? What’s the evidence? As recently as 2018, 72% of teachers said that the stress of the job was worth it. But in a June survey by the Rand Corporation, only 42% of teachers said that the stress of the job is still worth it. The most common complaint now reported by teachers is not low pay, or nasty parents, or difficult school administrators, but students: rude, out-of-control, disrespectful students.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
ifstudies.org | Leonard Sax
Western civilization has a more than 2,000-year history of men asserting that men and women are different and that men are better. In ancient Greece, Aristotle asserted that the world is binary: there is Good and Evil, Light and Dark, Straight and Curved, Male and Female. Aristotle explicitly equated women with Dark, Curved, and Evil. American women did not gain the right to vote until 1920 and did not have the right to serve on federal juries until 1957.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
ifstudies.org | Leonard Sax
Over the past 30 years, there has been a marked rise in the proportion of children and teens diagnosed with psychiatric disorders. Why? As a family doctor (MD) and PhD psychologist, I have been writing about this topic for more than 20 years, based primarily on my first-hand experience in the office, and secondarily on my visits to more than 500 schools over the past 23 years.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
salvomag.com | Leonard Sax
Check the Facts: How Common Is Intersex? And Why Does It Matter? In March 2023, Liam Morrison was an eighth-grader on the honor roll at John T. Nichols Middle School in Middleborough, Massachusetts. One day, Liam wore a t-shirt to school emblazoned with the message, “There are only two genders.” Only a few minutes after arriving at school, Liam was removed from his classroom. The principal told Liam that he must remove his t-shirt because it was offensive.
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Jan 30, 2024 | 
iwf.org | McKenzie Holmes |Julie Gunlock |Leonard Sax
Are conservative parents better? On this episode of the Bespoke Parenting Podcast, host Julie Gunlock talks to psychologist and practicing family physician Dr. Leonard Sax about parenting styles and philosophies such as gentle parenting and its unintended consequences, the importance of structure, boundary setting, and guardrails for kids, and the interesting political polarization we’re seeing in parenting today.
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Dec 29, 2023 | 
ifstudies.org | Leonard Sax
Editor's Note: Our number 1 blog post of 2023 with over 39,000 page views is this April 2023 essay on politics and parenting from Dr. Leonard Sax.
A mom brought her six-year-old daughter into the office with a fever and a sore throat. I asked the little girl to open her mouth and say “Ah.” She shook her head and clenched her mouth shut. “Mom, it looks like I’m going to need your help here," I said.
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Sep 5, 2023 | 
catholicvoice.org.au | Leonard Sax
In an increasingly digital age, Africa’s young people, like elsewhere, are becoming avid users of social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and others. However, this surge in online activity has raised concerns over the impact on their overall well-being. Governments may not be prepared to deal with the fall-out given social welfare challenges prevalent in most African countries. Perhaps the Church can help guide young people under its care?
