E7. James Breakwell On Why He Can Do Better, But He’s Not Going To

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🗓️ 15 November 2018

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

James Breakwell, Twitter celebrity, Indiana father of four daughters, and author of Bare Minimum Parenting – The Ultimate Guide to Not Quite Ruining Your Child, discusses raising children in today’s world. He and Bridget cover “drone parenting”, screen time and social media, keeping your perspective on parenting and ignoring the shamers, and why wanting your kid to go to Harvard is basically a euphemism for wanting them to make the most money. They also discuss treating Twitter like a job, how “overnight success” is really the result of at least ten years of slogging, and why saying “let’s cut parents some slack,” is a radical message in this day and age, but it shouldn’t be. You can find James on Twitter @XplodingUnicorn.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to this Podcast One production.
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0:08.3	This is Walk-In's Welcome with Bridget Petacy.
0:10.9	I'm Bridget Petacy, I'm Bridget Petacy and you are welcome. You know the drill.
0:25.0	the drill.
0:27.0	Please subscribe, rate, comment, share, reach out, tell your friend, send smoke signals, whatever.
0:32.0	We love your feedback and we want to hear from you.
0:34.3	This week on Walkins Welcome, I'm happy to welcome James Breakwell. He is best known for his
0:41.0	Twitter account, Exploding Unicorn, which has over a million followers.
0:46.2	And he's a comedy writer, as well as a father of four girls, and he's coming on to talk about
0:51.8	his book that just dropped on election day
0:53.9	bare minimum parenting which is a return to common sense parenting and doing less
0:59.9	instead of worrying about doing so much more we cover a lot of ground in this conversation, so enjoy.
1:06.0	All right.
1:07.0	You're being recorded, James.
1:09.0	All right, and the pressure's on.
1:11.0	Time to say something career ending,
1:13.4	give you all that blackmail material.
1:15.6	Time to shine.
1:17.6	You've been on quite the publicity tour, no?
1:21.4	Yes, I have been. It's, you spend you know six months or a year writing a book and then the hard part starts and you have to promote it
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