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Parenting for the Future helps parents understand - the phenomena that will shape the world in which their children will come of age and the science and strategies for raising their children to find their own voices so that they can thrive and shape that world in their unique way.
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Studies have shown that 69-90% of us will experience at least one serious traumatic event during our lifetimes. The sudden death of a loved one. A debilitating illness. A natural disaster. War. What differentiates us? How we respond; how resilient we are. Our guest today has found that extremely resilient people share the 10 attributes we discuss in this episode. As we reflect on the personal and global challenges we have all faced in 2023 and look forward to the new year, understanding how we can not only become more resilient but teach our children to develop resilience, is undoubtedly one of the most important lessons we can learn.
On October 24, 2023 a bipartisan coalition of 32 US. Attorneys Generals filed a Federal lawsuit against Meta alleging that the company knowingly designed and deployed harmful features at Instagram, Facebook, and its other social media platforms to induce young children and teenagers into addictive and compulsive social media use contributing significantly to a youth mental health crisis. The suit also alleges that Meta has repeatedly misled the public about the substantial dangers of its platform's use. But in 2021 before these lawsuits, an anonymous employee of Facebook filed a series of complaints with the US. Federal government, claiming that Facebook had been misleading the public and investors about the impact of its services on the mental health of children and young adults. That employee later revealed herself to be Frances Hogan, and she is our guest today. As we enter the holiday season where our kids are likely to spend more time than usual on screens, this conversation is more important than ever.
There are over 300,000 transgender children under 13 years of age in the United States.and every single one of them is under attack. Join me in conversation with Jodie Patterson, former Chair of the Human Right Campaign Foundation Board, author, activist and mom to a transgender child where we explore the transformative privilege of parenting transgender children and why fighting for their rights and protecting their ability to thrive is non-negotiable if we want a future where all our children will thrive.
“Some of issues parents expected to confront when their child was in their early twenties. have been pushed later. I think it's safe to say that many parents expected to still be providing some financial assistance to their child when their child was in their early twenties. Don't think that many parents expected to be doing it when their child was 30, and I think that from the young person's point of view they probably expect to be getting some help from their parents while they were still in college and right out of college, but I'm sure that they didn't expect that to be having to go to their mother and father and ask for financial help on the over 30 or 32, and that is going on today. And so I think the shifting timetable of the transition to adulthood has really made this an important topic and parents are perplexed” Distinguished University Professor and Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Temple University Education/Degree: AB in Psychology, Vassar College Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies Cornell University
" The truth is Congress has so completely failed. They Haven't passed a Privacy law since Mark Zuckerberg was in diapers. It’s pathetic. Shame on them! This has reshaped everybody's lives, and they just sat there, and because of their political partisanship, the fact There's not a federal privacy, law, or Laws regulating social media platforms is a joke. Absolute abject failure of our political system in the twenty-first century." Founder and CEO, Common Sense Media Co-Founder, Center for the next generation Education/Degree BA, Stanford University J.D., Stanford Law School
'When I work with the athletes and talk about toolboxes, I think helping them build tool belts that give them the arsenal. So when? Not if but when the headwind blows. Oh, I got this! I have agency over my destiny. I get to decide what's next for me, (remove Petal's sound) Yes, I'm gonna need help along the way and support, of course, but I'm not gonna let any setback, not making the team or that coach not liking me, determine my future. " Peak Performance Coach Motivational Speaker Co-host: “Raising Athletes” Podcast Education/Degree: BA, College of William and Mary
"Complex care typically refers to the children at the very tip, who are the sickest and the book is really written to be more, all inclusive, because many children, while they may not be complex, they have chronic health conditions which cause a lot of increased work for their families. " Director of Pediatrics at the Atria Institute in New York City Education/Degree: BA, Harvard University MD, Vagelos College of physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University
“The ability to introspect to work through problems. This is one of the reasons we are so successful as a species. The ability to introspect is how we learn from our problems and plan for the future is what allows us in part to build spaceships that literally land SUVs nowadays on other planets like Mars. but, on the other hand, people struggle enormously with introspection to the point that they become overly angry, anxious, and depressed. And so we've got this remarkable tool. but it's really unwieldy. Sometimes it helps us. Sometimes it hurts us." Professor, University of Michigan's Psychology Department and Russ school of Business Founder and Director of the Emotion and Self Control Lab, University of Michigan Education/Degree: Ph.D. Columbia University BA University of Pennsylvania
"Well, if we break money down to its simplest components, right? And how we handle it, what do we do with our money. We really do 3 things right. We spend it. we save it, we give it away. And if you think about what actually goes into the decisions around each of those you know. They're all about emotions and behaviors. spending is about modesty and prudence and thrift, or it's about greed and envy. saving is about delayed gratification. Patience. giving is generosity. It's a sense of gratitude. So it's easy to think about this as a sort of you know, hard mathematical science, but I prefer to think of it as a social science. Money is about behavior as much as it is about numbers and math." “Your Money” Columnist, The New York Times Education/Degree BA, American Studies, Amherst College
"A third of the young people who come to us feel like it's unclear to them how to affect change. And so our goal has to be start small, start with the things that are accessible that you can actually do today, whether that's educating yourself or taking a first volunteer action. And then that portal can be a way to level up engagement so that you get to do more and more over time.” CEO of Do.Something.org, one of the world’s largest organizations exclusively for young people who are committed to positive social change Education/Degree: BS in Legal Studies, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, J. D., Fordham Law School. DoSomething.org
"When we talk about caring for other people, we are also talking about caring for the common good, and we're talking about caring across difference. Relatively speaking, it's not hard for people to care for someone else. Almost everybody cares for somebody else. the higher bar for a lot of people is caring for people who are different from them in race or class, or culture, or political orientation, or religious orientation" Senior lecturer at Harvard's Graduate School of Education and the Harvard Kennedy School of government. Faculty director of Harvard's Making Caring Common Project Education/Degree: Ed.D., Harvard University
Jonathan Rubenstein is father to one daughter and the founder and CEO of Joe Coffee, New York City’s original specialty coffee company and a pioneer of the Third Wave Coffee Movement. The award-winning collection of cafes is best known for brewing the highest quality coffee and serving its community of customers with warm, authentic hospitality. Jonathan is here to talk about how cup of coffee and a lot of care can make the world a better place
Laurie Palau is a mom two almost grown-up daughters, host of the super popular weekly podcast, This ORGANIZED Life, and founder of Simply B Organized, a lifestyle company helping people declutter their lives so they could live simply and more meaningfully. Laurie’s advice has been featured in national publications including Real Simple and The New York Times and she speaks frequently on clutter, parenting, and entrepreneurship. She is the author of the best-selling book Hot Mess: A Practical Guide to Getting Organized. This book is the topic of our conversation today.
New York Times bestselling author, Susan Verde is mom to three teenagers, two cats a dog and a tarantula. She is also a yogi and a mindful human who teaches yoga and mindfulness to kids of all ages. Susan has written more than twenty picture books for children, in which she captures and celebrates the unique experience of being a child. Her books are used around the world to support mindfulness, yoga and social-emotional learning programs in schools and libraries. Today, Susan is here to talk about her latest book and her first book for adults: Say one Kind Thing: Lessons in Acceptance, Love, and Letting Go.
The Metropolitan Opera (the Met) is the largest performing arts institution in the United States. Each season, the Met stages more than 200 opera performances in New York with over 800,000 people in attendance. Millions more experience the Met through its 90-year-old radio broadcast series, its new media partnerships and state-of-the-art technology, including Metropolitan Opera Radio on SiriusXM Satellite Radio, Met Opera on Demand and free live audio streaming of performances on its website during the opera season. Yet for all of its acclaim and reputation for being innovative and forward thinking, true inclusion has not been part of the Met’s story. Enter Marcia Sells, the first Chief Diversity Officer for the Metropolitan Opera and a phenomenal mom to her daughter and step-son. Marcia joined the Met Opera after serving as Associate Dean and Dean of Students at Harvard Law School. Her storied career includes positions in academia, the private sector and public service. She is here to talk today about her work to make opera inclusive and ready to thrive in an increasingly diverse world
Dr. Mona Delahooke is mother to three adult children, and grandmother to one grand-daughter. She is a licensed clinical psychologist with more than thirty years of experience and serves as senior faculty member of the Profectum Foundation, an organization dedicated to supporting families of neurodiverse children, adolescents and adults. Her latest book, Brain-Body Parenting builds on the lessons of Beyond Behaviors and offers a radical new approach to parenting based on her clinical experiences as well as the most recent research in neuroscience and child psychology. This book is the topic of our conversation today.
Rebecca Chandler Leege is a mother and the Chief Impact Officer at Worldreader, a US based global technology non-profit that expands vulnerable children's access to books. Worldreader was born out of the belief that inexpensive technology and local content could help millions of children learn to read and ultimately create a better future for themselves. Since 2010, the company and its partners have distributed over 58 million digital books in 52 languages, to children and young adults in 100 countries. Rebecca has more than 20 years of leadership experience and a proven track record of growing innovative organizations through creative collaborations, cross-sector partnerships, and strategic vision. She is here today to discuss the work of Worldreader and the positive impact it is having on the lives of millions of children.
Lisa L. Lewis is mother to two children and a freelance journalist who covers the intersection of parenting, public health, and education. She has written for The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Atlantic, TIME, the Los Angeles Times, Slate, and Your Teen, among others. Her new book, The Sleep-Deprived Teen: Why Our Teenagers Are So Tired, and How Parents and Schools Can Help Them Thrive is an outgrowth of her previous work on teens and sleep, including her role in helping get California’s landmark legislation on healthy school start times passed. This book is the topic of our conversation today.
LaMonica Williams is mother to two children and the Director of Program, Pre K - 2 Division at Teaching Matters, a national professional learning organization dedicated to helping teachers and school leaders develop the skills they need to close the gaps created by a radically unequal education system. La Monica’s expertise is in elementary literacy and she also manages the work of Teaching Matters to support educators and train them to use data to advance students’ reading and writing abilities. She joins us to discuss how Teaching Matters is creating a more equitable education landscape.
Sarah Jaffe is mother to one daughter. She began her career as an attorney for children in the foster care system, advocating for some of the most vulnerable children in our nation, but it was not until she became a mother, that she took real stock of, and became deeply troubled by, the stark differences between the lives of the children she met at work and the lives of the children she met in her parenting life. She began to question whether her only duty as a parent was to get “the best” for her own child or whether she had an obligation to make decisions that would help create a more equitable society for all children. Her questions led her to write her first book, Wanting What’s Best: Parenting, Privilege, and Building a Just World. This book is the topic of this episode.
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