Dr. Sax was a guest on Fox & Friends to give a quick overview of the mechanisms whereby permissive parenting leads to more kids becoming anxious and/or depressed. He explores this topic at much greater length in his book The Collapse of Parenting. You can watch this segment on Fox at this link.| Leonard Sax MD PhD | Physician, Psychologist, and Author
Dr. Sax returned to The Megyn Kelly Show on December 11 2024. You can watch the entire interview (90 minutes!) or choose short snippets prepared by Megyn’s team, at this YouTube link.| Leonard Sax MD PhD | Physician, Psychologist, and Author
Dr. Sax was on The Megyn Kelly Show for an extended discussion of issues facing girls, boys, and their parents, on January 18 2023. You can watch the entire interview (90 minutes!) or choose short snippets prepared by Megyn’s team, at this YouTube link.| Leonard Sax MD PhD | Physician, Psychologist, and Author
Since 2018, Dr. Sax has been a regular contributor to the Institute for Family Studies, publishing essays on a wide variety of topics including the growing gender gap in academic achievement; the toxicity of some aspects of American popular culture; and the unique risks associated with TikTok. A full list of his contributions is posted at this link.| Leonard Sax MD PhD | Physician, Psychologist, and Author
Friedrich Nietzsche was among the first philosophers to wrestle seriously with the implications of Charles Darwin’s theories. In Daybreak (1881), Nietzsche considered the metaphysical consequences of Darwinian evolution:| Leonard Sax MD PhD | Physician, Psychologist, and Author
Kyle Giersdorf earned $3 million when he won the Fortnite World Cup. He was 16 years old. Suppose it’s after midnight and your son is playing video games. You tell him to turn off the game and go to bed. What are you supposed to say, when your son answers “But video games are my JOB!” Please see my article for The New York Times, posted October 29 2019, at this link.| Leonard Sax MD PhD | Physician, Psychologist, and Author
Eric Metaxas, author of bestselling biographies of Martin Luther and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, interviews Dr. Sax about Dr. Sax’s scholarly paper “Aus den Gemeinden von Burgenland“, in which Dr. Sax provides evidence that Adolf Hitler’s paternal grandfather was a Jew and that Adolf Hitler most likely knew it. Eric and Leonard then explore the implications of that finding for our understanding of Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust.| Leonard Sax MD PhD | Physician, Psychologist, and Author
Hans Frank was Adolf Hitler’s personal attorney. In Frank’s memoir, published seven years after his execution in 1946 at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, Frank claimed to have uncovered evidence in 1930 that Hitler’s paternal grandfather was a Jewish man living in Graz, Austria, in the household where Hitler’s grandmother was employed. | Leonard Sax MD PhD | Physician, Psychologist, and Author
Stuart Varney interviews Dr. Sax about “The Collapse of Parenting”. This interview is fun!| Leonard Sax MD PhD | Physician, Psychologist, and Author
A couple, returning from vacation, turns on the air-conditioning. The wife is overwhelmed by a terrible stench coming from the ductwork and is convinced that an animal must have died in the house. She tells her husband that they need to hire somebody to get rid of it.| Leonard Sax MD PhD | Physician, Psychologist, and Author
The Science Talent Search is the leading science competition for American high school students. It’s often referred to as “The Junior Nobel Prize.” According to a recent study, 83 percent of the forty finalists in 2016 were the children of immigrants. Fourteen had parents from India; eleven had parents from China. So twenty-five of the forty finalists, or 62 percent, had Chinese or Indian parents. (To put that in context, only about 2 percent of children in America have Chinese or Indi...| Leonard Sax MD PhD | Physician, Psychologist, and Author
Kyle was absorbed in a videogame on his cellphone, so I asked his mom, “How long has Kyle had a stomach ache?” Mom said, “I’m thinking it’s been about two days.” Then Kyle replied, “Shut up, mom. You don’t know what you’re talking about.” And he gave a snorty laugh, without looking up from his videogame. Kyle is 10 years old.| Leonard Sax MD PhD | Physician, Psychologist, and Author
See Martin Holtmann and colleagues, “Bipolar disorder in children and adolescents in Germany: national trends in the rates of inpatients, 2000 – 2007,” Bipolar Disorders, volume 12, pp. 155 – 163, 2010, full text available online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1399-5618.2010.00794.x/full. Among adolescents, Holtmann and colleagues note that an adolescent in the United States is still much more likely (about 40 times more likely) to be diagnosed with bipolar disorder t...| Leonard Sax MD PhD | Physician, Psychologist, and Author
For the past thirty years, we have been subjected to the dogma that the best way to eliminate gender stereotypes is to ignore gender differences. This dogma was never based in data, but in ideology. And the result of thirty years of indoctrination in this dogma is that we have LOST ground on this parameter: from 34% in 1987 to 25% in 2021. In fact, the best way to get most girls excited about computer science is different from the best way to get most boys excited about computer science. For ...| Leonard Sax MD PhD | Physician, Psychologist, and Author
Over the past decade, rates of obesity have been pretty stable for American kids 6 to 18 years of age. But over the same decade, the fitness of American kids has declined significantly, even though the average kid hasn’t gotten any fatter. In 2014, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the result of a study which compared the physical fitness of 12- to 15-year-olds in 2012 with 12- to 15-year-olds back in 1999 and 2000. They found that the average fitn...| Leonard Sax MD PhD | Physician, Psychologist, and Author
For the 1972 data, see Cheryl Fryar and colleagues, “Prevalence of obesity among children and adolescents: United States, trends 1963-1965 through 2009-2010,” published September 13 2012 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, full text online at www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/obesity_child_09_10/obesity_child_09_10.htm. For the 2020 data, see the CDC page “Childhood obesity facts,” https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/childhood.html, accessed January 3 2023.| Leonard Sax MD PhD | Physician, Psychologist, and Author
Compared with a teenager in the United Kingdom, a teenager in the United States is about how likely to be diagnosed with ADHD?| Leonard Sax MD PhD | Physician, Psychologist, and Author
There is no innate difference in the ability of girls and boys to master a foreign language; but in the United States, there is now a big gender gap in motivation. In other words: the biggest differences between girls and boys are not in what they can do but in what they want to do. In my visits to more than 460 schools over the past 22 years, I have learned a great deal about how to boost boys’ motivation in modern foreign languages as well as in English literature and creative writing, hi...| Leonard Sax MD PhD | Physician, Psychologist, and Author
Compared with children in Italy, children in the United States are about how likely to be on prescription antipsychotic medications such as Risperdal and Seroquel?| Leonard Sax MD PhD | Physician, Psychologist, and Author
Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb interview Dr. Sax and Dr. Meg Meeker on The TODAY Show. This video is no longer available. A transcript is available here.| Leonard Sax MD PhD | Physician, Psychologist, and Author
If mom and dad installed monitoring software on their middle-schoolers’ phones, it would make a big difference.| Leonard Sax MD PhD | Physician, Psychologist, and Author
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Psychiatry’s diagnostic bible has broadened the definition of mental illness to absurdity.| Leonard Sax MD PhD | Physician, Psychologist, and Author
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This video is no longer available. A transcript is online here. (Scroll down or search for “Sax”.)| Leonard Sax MD PhD | Physician, Psychologist, and Author