Denise Mullen

After reading the negative comments below, I wonder if I’m watching the same show they are. Do I agree with him 100%? Of course not. But there are many shows that the parents drag their teen on the show “to be fixed”. It may sound condescending to some, but 8 times out of 10, Dr. Phil will ask when the bad behavior started, and the answer is somewhere between 6 & 8. What were they doing then to avert this situation? Why did it take until their kid is 16 and getting arrested to ask for help? Obviously, some have different opinions than Dr. Phil, but I find that he gives plain, down to earth suggestions. Also, this last generation of parents & their kids seem to think everything that goes wrong for them is someone else’s fault. If their kid fails at Math and then can’t play on the soccer team, it must be the teachers fault. Do the parents have any responsibility to make sure their kids are doing what they should? But certainly don’t tell them how to raise their kids, because they’ll tell you that the older generation is out of touch & don’t know the latest way to ruin their kids. One Dr. Phil show talked about the danger of posting your kid on Facebook with their school T-shirt on. With the number of kidnappings by pedophiles these days, do you think they’re too stupid to figure out that you live within a mile of that school? All they have to do is sit at the school and wait. But when I mentioned this to a young mother on Facebook, she thought I was being silly and OVERPROTECTIVE. Really? Can you be TOO overprotective these days?? And all the other young mothers also had loud opinions, to the point that I had to shut my account down. Lastly, I don’t even get that comment about Robin & her logo, or wearing expensive clothes. Do these people feel the same about the Kardashian’s & the way they flaunt their wealth? Or do they know that all of the proceeds for Robin’s makeup line go to a charity for battered women? Please, watch more than one show before you judge 20 years of basic, common sense advice. He often gives the same type of advice that parents gave in the 1950’s, when there was very little crime, no drug use by teens, hardly any suicide or bullying, and kids still respected adults, even if they weren’t your parents…