Parenting for the Future – Details, episodes & analysis

In this Episode you will learn about:

• How parents can raising confident, curious, human-centered people
• The life-shaping power of books and conversations
• Civic journalism
• Keys to rebuilding trust in the press and key institutions 
• Why hope is a muscle and how we can make it strong

In this Episode you will learn about:

• Now Look!  The newest book by Sydney Lea
• The scourge of addiction in small-town America
• The role of nature in shaping a life
• The  role of friendship and community in saving a life
• Why a Liberal Arts education matters more than ever
• How to help kids embrace poetry
• Three poets all kids (and parents) should read

• Founder of the Village Well
• Educator
• Certified Positive Parenting Educator
• Education/Degree
• University of California, Davis

• In this episode you will learn:

  • What it means to “decolonize” your parenting 
  • How to leverage the wisdom of your cultural background in your parenting
  • Why it is important to interrupt intergenerational pain to create healthy, thriving families
  • How to apply positive parenting principles to common and not-so-common parenting challenges

   

Chris Balme

• Founding Principal at founding principal at Hakuba International School, Japan 
• Co. Founder and Former Head of The Millennium School
• Founder and Director of Argonaut
• Ashoka fellowship recipient
• Author
• Education/Degree:
• B.A., University of Pennsylvania
• B.S., Wharton School of Management.

Navigating conversations about identity, diversity, and justice can be fraught with linguistic traps and emotional landmines. On this episode we learn from Kenji Yoshino, Professor of Law at NYU School of Law and Faculty Director of the school's Meltzer Center for Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging how to have nuanced and empathetic conversations about our differences, whether in our workplaces, our social circles, or in our homes and how to teach our children this skill so that they can thrive in a diverse and complex world.

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. 

“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