No offense Ms. Shriner, but this is all anecdotal. You don’t seem to have any evidence to back up your hypothesis .(btw the people expressing their experiences here, while validating, are not Gen Z, they are older than that. They also all seem to be children of divorce. Perhaps there is something there, at least as to why the parents too…
No offense Ms. Shriner, but this is all anecdotal. You don’t seem to have any evidence to back up your hypothesis .(btw the people expressing their experiences here, while validating, are not Gen Z, they are older than that. They also all seem to be children of divorce. Perhaps there is something there, at least as to why the parents took them to therapy and why they were not best at picking out a doctor for their children. Divorce is a watershed moment in a life.)
I think you have an interesting topic, but you have cast your net too wide and too conclusively. If you are going to cast a net that wide you need to look at the variables; Why, from BOTH the parent’s perspective and the child’s, was the child sent to therapy in the first place? It isn’t a given that parents rush their kids off to therapy first thing for no reason. It’s usually because something is completely out of control and they have already tried many things.
So start there: what are the behaviors of the child that prompt parents? It has to be more (at least originally before the “trans craze” on social media) than just I feel awkward in my body.
What about divorce and how it affects families, including kids? What about addictions? You can’t swing a dead cat without hitting an addict or child of an addict and how that affects their thinking and behaviors, and can lead them to become addicts, but not necessarily the same addiction! For example, the child of an alcoholic may, in teen years (always tumultuous anyway), develop an eating disorder, a drug habit, a gambling addiction, etc.
And what about ADHD/ADD? You seem to have reached conclusions about that too. Is it “real”? Or is it misdiagnosed MORE often than NOT, and are kids medicated MORE often than NOT, and are those who receive medication adversely affected MORE often than NOT? You are simplistically and reductively coming to a conclusion based on anecdotal evidence.
I’m not all for medicating kids, especially messing with hormones-which are extremely powerful biological processes- nor making permanent medical decisions like surgeries, nor do I think that all therapists/ therapy is bad. And “buck up buttercup” isn’t always the best way to handle it either. So I think it’s just as important to slow your roll on this as it is to slow the transitioners.
It seems to me too that everyone is forgetting that puberty is a tumultuous time that lasts years while at the same time kids are still LEARNING. And to learn they must be curious. To be curious about the opposite sex, their bodies, how they work, what it feels like to be in your own body, especially while it changes, etc. It seems everyone has forgotten kids explore. Adults used to call it playing doctor (or doctors and nurses.) How about going at it from that angle? I don’t know the answers, but this article isn’t well supported. Just my thoughts.
No offense Ms. Shriner, but this is all anecdotal. You don’t seem to have any evidence to back up your hypothesis .(btw the people expressing their experiences here, while validating, are not Gen Z, they are older than that. They also all seem to be children of divorce. Perhaps there is something there, at least as to why the parents took them to therapy and why they were not best at picking out a doctor for their children. Divorce is a watershed moment in a life.)
I think you have an interesting topic, but you have cast your net too wide and too conclusively. If you are going to cast a net that wide you need to look at the variables; Why, from BOTH the parent’s perspective and the child’s, was the child sent to therapy in the first place? It isn’t a given that parents rush their kids off to therapy first thing for no reason. It’s usually because something is completely out of control and they have already tried many things.
So start there: what are the behaviors of the child that prompt parents? It has to be more (at least originally before the “trans craze” on social media) than just I feel awkward in my body.
What about divorce and how it affects families, including kids? What about addictions? You can’t swing a dead cat without hitting an addict or child of an addict and how that affects their thinking and behaviors, and can lead them to become addicts, but not necessarily the same addiction! For example, the child of an alcoholic may, in teen years (always tumultuous anyway), develop an eating disorder, a drug habit, a gambling addiction, etc.
And what about ADHD/ADD? You seem to have reached conclusions about that too. Is it “real”? Or is it misdiagnosed MORE often than NOT, and are kids medicated MORE often than NOT, and are those who receive medication adversely affected MORE often than NOT? You are simplistically and reductively coming to a conclusion based on anecdotal evidence.
I’m not all for medicating kids, especially messing with hormones-which are extremely powerful biological processes- nor making permanent medical decisions like surgeries, nor do I think that all therapists/ therapy is bad. And “buck up buttercup” isn’t always the best way to handle it either. So I think it’s just as important to slow your roll on this as it is to slow the transitioners.
It seems to me too that everyone is forgetting that puberty is a tumultuous time that lasts years while at the same time kids are still LEARNING. And to learn they must be curious. To be curious about the opposite sex, their bodies, how they work, what it feels like to be in your own body, especially while it changes, etc. It seems everyone has forgotten kids explore. Adults used to call it playing doctor (or doctors and nurses.) How about going at it from that angle? I don’t know the answers, but this article isn’t well supported. Just my thoughts.