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I'm Angela Duckworth.

I'm Mike Mann and you're listening to no stupid questions.

Today on the show, should kids be more independent?

We are freaking out because a mom sends their kids to Macy's on the subway when they're in middle

school. Mike, there's a question that doesn't come from a listener, it comes from me.

Okay, I like it.

In the simplest possible terms should we give children more independence

than we do these days. Oh my gosh I love this question. Right? Yeah. I've been watching this Japanese reality show called

Old Enough. Have you ever seen it? I've never seen it but I've heard about it from a friend who is trying

to model raising his children partly based on this show.

Based on old enough? Yes. That's intriguing. Highly recommend seeing at least one

complete episode. The first episode that I saw, some friend was

practically evangelical about like you have to see old enough and I'm like yeah yeah like no

you have to watch old enough. I was like okay. I do love a recommendation like that by

the way. I do too I do. Those are kind of the only ones I take.

Yeah, evangelical recommendations are usually pretty good, do, right? Like there's something behind the passion.

So Jason I whip out the remote control, we pull up Netflix, and we find old enough, and I think this reality show in Japan,

I don't know, these episodes feel kind of vintage, so I don't know whether it's still ongoing, but the premise of the show... the the first episode I saw, oh my gosh, this kid wasn't three. I think they were two

plus but not three. Okay so walk at one talk at two so they're barely talking.

I mean they're barely anything. They're like pint size and the premise of the show is that the little son or daughter is given a task by the parents and it could be for example like the first episode that I saw

this little boy was given the task of going to the supermarket and

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