Function as a team, because it was basically we lost everything in this house fire that happened just as they were turning into teenagers. What year was that . Around 20002001. So it was an interesting experience. And for them to also be on the side of people donating things to us. It was a really unusual experience where weve been on the other side of the gift giving in the past. And we had to work through recreating our physical lives. I think we all learned that stuff doesnt really matter, that its really all about people. It was an incredible lesson. Not that id ever recommend it to anybody, but it was an incredible life lesson. You were a single mother but what was the impact on a teenager with that fire and what would be the impact on an adult . What would be the difference . Yeah, well. Stress has a greater impact on teenagers and that is one of many topics we talk about in the book. You know, they are surprisingly vulnerable to things that we might think, oh, theyre just resili
Has been linked to depression in adulthood in certain circumstances. We see this is sort of a repeating theme that things that happen to teenagers can somehow sometimes have longlasting outcomes and that theyre more vulnerable than we think. Who did you write this book for . Yeah. Well, i actually wrote it partly to myself when i was a parent of teenagers. I, having had these two kids and being a single parent, really started to realize that i wasnt in control of everything, you know. And it wasnt just do as mother tells you anymore. They were developing very, you know, independently and doing some very interesting things and like other parents, sort of peer parents that were going through it at the same time, we were frustrated, a little scared, getting very angry or had a lot of responses, and i thought, well, im a neurologist. Im on the developing brain itself. I got to look into this. This just doesnt make sense. This is not the same kid that i had a year ago. Its almost like a dif
To how one gets to a closing guantanamo . I dont think it is that complicated once we decide the we are going to do. The argument been would be we will never really she because there is a risk if we release you. Thats not good criminal Justice Policy and i dont think its good counterterrorism policy. Everybody else down there that we determined for whatever reason we cannot release or weve tried and convicted them we will housing in the United States. There are many, many Public Policy arguments over the course of my great that a frustrated me. Its amazing how people lead to incorrect conclusions and then the same irreversible. But the notion that we cannot hold dangers people safely in the United States to me is patently absurd. And yet, it drives the debate. The reason that we have not close guantanamo, keep in mind, it wasnt some big liberal goal, gates, john mccain, george w. Bush said we should close guantanamo. Why havent we . Well, ill skip the political argument for the moment
Fulltime in film making. Why did you originally study psychology. I think a lot of us want to understand how we tick ourselves and that was our initial motivation. I think i had an interesting upbringing where i didnt really understand what was happening in my family life. My parents have been through a divorce. And the i really think through that i wanted to understand how we all think. Where did you grow up . Grew up in new jersey, in essex county half hour west in north caldwell. Your family, whats the status today of your parents . What do they do . My mother is a Grammar School librarian and my father is a largely retired lawyer. So he works a lot as well. Anybody in your family do documentary s . Not that i know of. No one in my family works with the media and nobody does anything related either. They took it to the Democratic National convention and the Republican National convention, youre still working the documentary across the country. Why. Its a slow burn. It takes a long t
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