emily oster is so into these soft pants... and helping parents chill the f out

So Into That

Caro Chambers

Society & Culture, Food, Arts

5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Emily Oster is my motherhood messiah. I consider myself to be a pretty relaxed mom, but I certainly didn’t start out that way. Emily’s data-based parenting approach is to thank for that.

Anytime I’m starting to bug out about whether sleep training is going to mess up my baby for life, or if my kid is going to go to college only eating chicken fingers, or whether letting my kids watch an extra hour of TV is going to turn them into ding dongs — there’s Emily, giving me the data-backed reasons why I should chill the F out and just enjoy the ride.

Emily is the author of three data-based books on pregnancy and parenting as well as the newsletter , and in the very first episode of So Into That, she teaches us how to pull off soft pants at work, and how to relax as parents.

We also get into:

* Why Emily thinks moms are so anxious about everything these days

* Is sleep training messing up our kids?

* Is baby-led weaning a cure to picky eating?

* Whether the kids enrolled in every single extra-curricular are going to be the most successful

* What Emily’s “so out on” right now

* Our IRL LOLs of the week

* What she cooks when she doesn’t feel like cooking

Links:

* Emily’s newsletter

* Emily’s books

* Emily's Instagram

* The Athleta pants Emily’s so into

* The ones Caro’s so into

* The really nice thing that the cup company that Caro now feels bad about picking on did

Sponsor:

* Skout Organic kids snack bars (Code: CARO for a discount)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm your host Caroline Chambers, and this is so into that, the podcast where I invite cool people to tell us all about something that they're really into right now.
0:11.0	My first guest ever is Emily Oster and I don't even know where to start.
0:15.8	Emily is a professor of economics at Brown University and upon becoming a mother herself
0:21.2	she realized that she could take her expertise in data
0:24.5	analyization to help other parents make informed decisions about pregnancy and
0:29.4	parenting. She and I chat about what we're really into right now, including the soft pants that she can get away with wearing in a very serious work environment.
0:37.0	And then I grill her for the real down and dirty on a lot of things that make a lot of us anxious like sleep training and whether
0:44.9	baby-led weaning is actually making our kids better eaters or if it's all just one
0:49.4	more thing to make us feel more anxious and of course you know whether skipping the fall season of
0:54.4	you for soccer is going to ruin my son's chances at marrying a spice girl.
0:58.8	Emily is my motherhood Messiah she is single-handedly responsible for making me a calmer better happier mother.
1:06.0	Her research helped me stop stressing over every little thing and just learn to enjoy the ride
1:10.9	because she shows us that it's really hard to screw up a kid if we just try.
1:15.8	Here's Emily. Okay so Emily welcome to so into that. You are my very first guest and I'm so
1:22.4	pumped to have you because as you know because I send you like
1:26.3	tribulations of my love and my friends love. I send you screenshots of my friends being like Emily Auster talked about you, Caroline.
1:35.0	Carrow, will you ask Emily Auster this question?
1:38.0	And you know how much we adore you.
1:41.0	And I, every single person who I meet who tells me that they're
1:45.4	pregnant and they ask you know what do I do any advice I say pick up the book
1:49.0	expecting better by Emily Auster and do nothing else.
1:53.6	Listen to that and like chill the fuck out
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