Ep. 1039 Raising Mentally Strong Kids with Dr. Amen, and Inside ‘Rust’ Set Shooting with Rachel Mason

Megyn is joined by Dr. Daniel Amen, author of Raising Mentally Strong Kids, to talk about how parents are hurting their kids by doing so much for them, why that is actually a way for the parent to benefit rather than the kids, the keys to raising resilient children, mistakes parents often make by coddling their kids, the key factors of time and listening, how parents can responsibly stay involved as their kids grow up, the dangers of social media, how to avoid raising dependent adult children, the need to notice kids and give positive affirmations rather than only paying attention to the negative, new ways of using brain scans to treat patients, and more.

Then, Rachel Mason, director of Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna, joins to talk about what her friend – cinematographer Halyna Hutchins – was really like, the tragic Rust movie set shooting that took Halyna’s life, why Halyna’s family wanted to make sure the movie Rust was completed, how Rust is finally set to be released soon, why the film was “sad and painful” but also “magnificent” and well-made, how a live round could have gotten in Alec Baldwin’s prop gun, all the mistakes that had to happen on the set to get to this point, the confusion on the set that day, how the shooting was like “fiction meeting reality,” the guilt so many feel to this day, and more.