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🗓️ 18 August 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey, just your listeners. A lot of you have been asking me to react to the news that Jeanette McCarty came out with a book named |
0:06.8 | I am glad my mom died. I'm glad my mom died. It's a memoir. |
0:12.5 | She's basically saying that she's glad that her actual mother died. |
0:16.7 | So let's get to it. My name is Dr. Kirk Honda. I'm a therapist and a professor for you. |
0:21.0 | What were the pitfalls of child fame? |
0:23.4 | You're playing an adult's game. You're in an adult's world and you don't recognize that. |
0:29.1 | You're incapable of being on that level, but you are confused and you think that you are. |
0:33.6 | And I think it really leads to |
0:37.4 | Stunted personal development. Yeah, that's a good way to put it. |
0:41.8 | I obviously haven't been through that, but I've heard a number of stories from people about this being child stars. |
0:48.9 | And then as adults, they will talk about their experience. |
0:51.6 | I think for many people it's fine or it's a neutral thing or even a positive thing for people to be child stars. |
0:57.7 | But I think for many people it's not. And you know, I've talked about this frequently that when children |
1:03.7 | Consent because they have to consent to being on a show or consent to being on a reality TV show. |
1:09.2 | But I think all of us understand that children don't have the wherewithal, the knowledge, the wisdom to know what they're |
1:16.2 | Consenting to. They might even be enthusiastic about it. Like, yes, I want to be on that show. |
1:20.8 | But do we really think that children know what they're getting into? I don't think anyone thinks that. |
1:25.8 | So I don't think any kid maybe 16 you can start to say that maybe they know well, even then I don't think so. |
1:32.4 | So I just think that children should be left out of the industry entirely and I'm sure that'll never happen. |
1:38.0 | But particularly reality TV. But anyway, so she's saying it's like living in an adult world. |
1:43.1 | And as she's saying that, I'm thinking, yeah, that's true. You're working one, right? |
1:47.5 | You have a job as a child. I mean, you're instantly in a world of adults and not even just adults, |
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