Are Teen Psychologist Experts, Authors, and Speakers Reliving Their Past – Hard to Say
It is indeed hard to get into the mind of another, although they often give us very good clues. Not long ago, I was talking to a self-proclaimed expert, also an author and speaker on teenage girls, and it quickly became apparent that much of what was going on appeared to be introspective in the mind of this expert psychologist and author.
She seemed to delve heavily into her own life and family for clues, yes, and conclusions. Thus, armed with these introspective conclusions, enlightened, emboldened, and inspired she’s set out on a mission to help the rest of our society understand how to parent teenagers, specifically teenage girls. Now I am sure there is no doubt in anyone’s mind that teenagers, male or female can be quite a handful, especially for working parents.
We all know that if our teens get in with the wrong crowd at school, it could be years before we get them back on the straight and narrow, after all, we were all teens once too, and we have watched friends go astray, and been tempted ourselves. Now then, what possesses a mother to get her psychology degree, write books, and tell others how to raise their kids?
We know that anyone who has lived through the raising of teenagers looks back and considers their successes and challenges, wonders if they did okay, if they could have done better right, sure that makes sense. But why would someone devout their life to the cause to help other parents? Are teen psychologist authors, speakers, and experts reliving their past? Well that’s really hard to say, but we do know one thing; the often make a ton of money.
You see, they have a very large audience of potential readers, followers, and distraught parents to sell too. I think what bothers me are folks like Nancy Grace on TV and some of the expert psychologists she interviews, often folks that do high profile cases, and are our TV experts at large. They tend to scare parents too much. And yes, while that is a heck of a good marketing play, it is bothersome. These folks market to potential parents using fear more than anything else.
No, it’s not that kids don’t crash their cars while text messaging, or cause ex-friends to attempt to take their own lives due to something they said on a social network, we know that happens, but it is very rare. We also know that there are predators out there and we must protect our kids, but the reality is we don’t need these folks scaring every parent into believing that it’s automatically going to happen to them. These folks are way overdoing the fear factor. Please consider this.
Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes it’s hard to write 20,000 articles; http://www.bloggingcontent.net/
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