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Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - When Does Pushing Kids to Succeed Become Toxic?

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

Slate Audio

Kids & Family, Society & Culture, Parenting

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

On this episode: Zak Rosen, Jamilah Lemieux, and Elizabeth Newcamp talk about toxic achievement culture.


The three of them talk with Jennifer Breheny Wallace, journalist and author of Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic – And What We Can Do About It — about how we push our kids, and ourselves, even when we don’t need to.


We also go over our week in parenting. And then, for Slate Plus, we’ll debrief on our conversation with Jennifer, and the hosts will discuss how they, and their kids, fall victim to toxic achievement culture.


Join us on Facebook and email us at momanddad@slate.com to ask us new questions, tell us what you thought of today’s show, and give us ideas about what we should talk about in future episodes. You can also call our phone line: (646) 357-9318. 


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Podcast produced by Rosemary Belson and Maura Currie.


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0:35.6

Welcome to Mom & Dadr fighting Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday, September 21st,

0:40.6

the toxic achievement edition. I'm Jamil Lemue, a writer, contributor to Slate's

0:46.1

Karen beating parenting column, and Mom to Naima, who's 10, and we live in Los Angeles.

0:51.4

I'm a list of new camp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch Goose.

0:55.1

I'm the mom of three little, Henry, who's 11, Oliver, who's nine, and Teddy, who's six.

0:59.0

We live in Tokyo, Japan. I'm Zach Rosen. I make a different podcast. It's called the best

1:04.3

advice show, and I'm dad Tanoa, who's six, and Ami, who's three. We live in Detroit.

1:09.2

Today on the show, we're going to be joined by Jennifer Brahani Wallace, author of Never Enough,

1:14.8

when achievement culture becomes toxic and what we can do about it.

1:18.5

She'll tell us how to help our kids aim high, but also how to help them love themselves,

1:22.8

no matter what. But before that, we're going to share some stories from our week in parenting.

1:28.8

And then, if you're in the Slate Plus Club, we'll be debriefing our interview with Jennifer

1:32.8

and talking about our own experiences with achievement culture. Here's a peek of what you'll hear

1:37.6

if you have Slate Plus. Jenny talked about the false life vest that a lot of parents put on

1:45.0

getting into a good college and that it's actually a leaded vest. What do you think is the

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