EP. 449 Best to the Nest: Prepare for Life
Best to the Nest with Margery & Elizabeth
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2.4 • 629 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Boy, this one is a bit of a wander, but we get there eventually. We have so many questions about how to parent as AI and other technologies quickly transform what is expected of our children. We don’t have a strategy, but we have questions. Sometimes that has to be enough.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Elizabeth Reese. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Marjorie Punit. |
| 0:14.5 | This is best to the nest, the podcast that is all about creating strong, comfortable, beautiful nests that prepare us to fly. |
| 0:22.9 | The episode title is Prepare for Life. And we're going to talk about something that you're just |
| 0:29.1 | about at the beginning of when the chatter kind of starts with what are your kids going to do? |
| 0:36.9 | Like, what do you want to do? Yeah. Yeah. And by the time |
| 0:39.9 | they get to high school, kids are thinking about, oh, I'm going to be a doctor, or I'm going to be an |
| 0:43.1 | archaeologist, or I'm going to be, the conversation really starts quite early in high schools |
| 0:48.8 | about what kids want to do. And I came, and I think, you know, as a parent, you have to navigate that |
| 0:55.8 | because it comes, especially if your kids lean toward high achievement, or they tend to be |
| 1:02.4 | anxiety-ridden, or they tend to buy into they have to excel, or they have to know what is coming in |
| 1:08.6 | life. And there's a lot of pressure and there was pressure when |
| 1:11.0 | I was growing up there's pressure when you were growing up and I think social media obviously only |
| 1:17.2 | increases that pressure amongst kids and so I was thinking about when my kids were in high school |
| 1:23.0 | and my oldest one in particular didn't know what he wanted to study, really. And everybody was |
| 1:31.8 | asking him, like, what do you want to do? What do you want to do? And it was actually bringing him a bit |
| 1:36.1 | of anxiety because he just didn't know. And other kids were just naming things. And I just said, |
| 1:41.2 | honey, just lie. Just make something up. I said, nobody really cares. They're asking it's because it's the perfunctory question to ask somebody who's 17 or 18 years old. It is ridiculous to think that you need to know exactly what you're doing. Just pick something for a day. Try out how it feels if the next day you change your mind. |
| 2:02.6 | Because I guarantee you they're going to walk away and this is no insult to my adult friends. |
| 2:07.1 | But they're going to walk away and they have not inputted the information of what you want to be when you grow up. |
| 2:12.9 | It's a lazy question though. |
| 2:14.6 | It really is a lazy question. |
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