Ep. 197 - Let's be mindful of how this moment is impacting children & teenagers

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Today is Shaun's daughter, Kendi, turns 18 years old, but is stuck in the house, with school canceled, and everything else canceled as well. Today, Shaun talks about how the coronavirus is going to impact not just his family, but America's children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is my daughter, Kindy's 18th birthday, and I have to say it is probably the strangest of all of her
0:10.2	birthdays.
0:11.2	We are basically homebound.
0:13.5	All of New York is pretty much isolated and within the house.
0:18.7	Her school year has been canceled.
0:20.4	All of her, she goes to performing arts high school in New York. All of the
0:25.2	performances have been canceled. She does Jiu-Jitsu and the gym has closed and
0:30.8	there's so many things we wanted to do for her birthday and all of that
0:35.2	is canceled and here we are stuck in the house and I wanted to talk today not just
0:40.5	about my love for her but the impact that the coronavirus is having on children
0:48.0	all over the country. I want to unpack and explain that and say some things that we can be doing.
0:53.6	All right?
0:54.4	This is Sean King and you are listening to
0:57.0	the breakdown.
0:58.1	The breakdown.
1:00.1	The breakdown.
1:02.1	Breakdown. The breakdown. The breakdown.
1:03.0	The breakdown.
1:05.0	The breakdown. The breakdown. You know,
1:08.0	some events that happen in the country, mean for many of us I think over the past
1:18.0	20 or 30 years some events just change you forever. Of course, I think 9-11 is one of those events.
1:27.0	Obviously that impacted the country in so many people's lives, but impacted all of us in the world in so many often traumatic ways and
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