Ask Your Kid The Tough Questions with Angie Martinez

Michelle Obama: The Light Podcast

Higher Ground

Self-improvement, Education, Society & Culture, Relationships

4.4 • 9.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Michelle and Craig sit down with famed radio host, podcaster, newly-minted golfer, and “Voice of New York,” Angie Martinez. As the mother of two sons, Angie offers her opinions to a listener struggling with raising a son in a volatile culture filled with bad examples of masculinity. Michelle and Craig talk about adolescent social pressure, and Angie shares her best trick for connecting with sons.

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0:00.0	The one thing that pissed me off about parenting is like when I got pregnant,
0:03.1	nobody told me when my son was a baby, I would look at his chest and see if he was still breathing.
0:08.2	I go in the room and I would do that for weeks.
0:10.3	And then I said, okay, I'm I can't sleep.
0:11.7	When does this part stop?
0:13.8	And the day that I realized, oh my gosh, this never stops.
0:17.5	I was furious.
0:19.4	Nobody told me that.
0:22.0	This is a big deal.
0:24.1	Like, forever I have somebody to worry about. Forever and ever, amen, as I say, you know.
0:27.4	I don't care how old.
0:28.5	And then they'll have grandkids and you'll feel the same way about them.
0:32.5	So it just goes on.
0:33.6	It's torturous.
0:34.5	It's really torturous.
0:35.3	So we got to think about this because parenting is for, you know, it ain't for everybody.
0:38.9	It ain't for suckas. It's not for suckas. You've got to be tough. You got to, you know, you got to be.
0:45.4	And so we have to prepare, Jessica has to prepare her son for that life.
0:56.0	This episode is brought to you by Pinesaw and Chase Home Lending.
1:01.9	Hey, little girl.
1:02.6	Craig Malcolm.
1:03.6	How are you?
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