Andy Schreiber

“Claims from experts that they know—or more laughably, that they care—what’s best for our kids with anything comparable to the degree that we do ought to be met with derision, contempt, the creeps.”
― Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

“Altering your child’s brain chemistry is about as profound a decision as you’ll ever make as a parent.”
― Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

“In the last generation, all traces of tough love and rule-bound parenting have been supplanted by a more empathetic style, the one once associated with moms. Most dads have been told explicitly—or made to feel—that the approach their own fathers took was wrong and their native instincts no guide.”
― Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

“Therapists readily empathize with the paying clients in front of them over those who have no opportunity to testify in their own defense.”
― Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up