1/ A few people criticized my piece in the @WSJopinion on the ground that I interviewed moms and moms are not experts on children. And it's true, they aren't. Moms are just the people who make a million sacrifices every day for their kids.
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2/ And you know what, these kids of ours, they don't come out exactly as we would have designed them. They let all the wrong kids hurt their feelings and all the wrong things get them down. We spend our lives - our real lives - dressing every kind of hurt,
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3/ staying up late to work on science far projects, nursing them through flus, and doing a million things we're too tired to remember just to make them a little stronger, to nudge them to be their better, stronger selves.
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4/ Experts do none of these things and they don't know our kids. They're also in the worst place to stand up to the cultural pressure because they need to stay in the graces of PC institutions, like those that accredit them.
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5/ And for the few remarkable experts who take the risk anyway, like Lisa Littman, their work is stripped off of university websites and everywhere disparaged. Littman's study is the essence of a valid, clinical study in an area where inquiry is so desperately needed.
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e/ One day, it the Am Acad of Pediatrics may admit it shouldn't have adopted "affirmative care" to stay on woke side of science. For all those adolescents who made wrecks of themselves, it won't be experts picking up the pieces. Just unaccredited parents who still give a damn.
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There's a Big Lie here, too. "Affirmative care" is by no means a consensus position, as this 17-clinic qualitative study found in 2015.pic.twitter.com/Kz4sHXIfxo
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Replying to @4th_WaveNow @AbigailShrier
apart of the shredding fact check of aap guidelines done citation by citation, quote by quote, survey by survey done of the AAP guidelines /affirmative action by james cantor that discover the dishonest interest by that association.
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