Decision-Making in Family Life with Professor Emily Oster

Best of Both Worlds Podcast

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Kids & Family, Careers, Business

4.6 • 761 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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This episode begins with a discussion about screen time -- different policies for different ages, stages, and personalities. Then, Sarah interviews Emily Oster (a rare repeat interview guest!) about decision-making. They chat about COVID, risk, family decisions, math, and Emily's new book, The Family Firm. In the Q&A, a listener writes in wondering if she can do anything to bring more peace and enjoyment to mornings with a toddler.

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0:00.0	Once upon a time, Amazon Music met audiobooks and listeners everywhere rejoiced.
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0:28.4	listening. Terms apply. Hi, this is Laura Vanderkamp. I'm a mother of five, an author, journalist,
0:37.9	and speaker. And this is Sarah Hart Unger. I'm a mother of five, an author, journalist, and speaker.
0:43.9	And this is Sarah Hart Unger. I'm a mother of three, a practicing physician, and blogger on the side.
0:49.2	We are two working parents who love our careers and our families. Welcome to Best of Both Worlds.
0:55.1	Here we talk about how real women manage work, family, and time for fun. From figuring out child care to mapping out long-term career goals, we want you to get the most out of life.
1:02.3	Welcome to Best of Both Worlds. This is Laura. This is episode 208. Sarah will be interviewing
1:08.8	Emily Oster, who has been on our program in the past, but is back because she has a brand new book out called The Family Firm, which is all about how we can make smart decisions, mindful decisions about how we raise our children, particularly through the elementary school years. It's a great book, Sarah and I both enjoyed it.
1:30.1	And so I know she's going to have a lot of great things to say. I also know that a lot of our listeners
1:33.7	have become more involved in Emily's universe over the past year and a half as she has been
1:39.9	writing a lot about the COVID research out there and how it relates to children and schools and
1:46.3	things like that. So you guys talk about that in the interview as well, Sarah, right?
1:51.9	We do. And to be, I'm thinking about the interview. And as we did it, the cases had been really low.
1:57.9	And honestly, they've gone up a bit since we recorded. So, you know,
2:01.9	as we kind of talked about making decisions has to do with putting in all the inputs about
2:06.5	risk and what you're willing to live with. And some of those equations may be a little bit
2:09.5	different than what we were talking about at that time. So I hope neither of us came off as in
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