Ep 5: Michael Ian Black on sadness, worries and masculinity; and how to talk to kids about terrifying events

Raising Good Humans

Dear Media, Aliza Pressman

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4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Michael Ian Black shares his children’s books to open up conversations with kids about being sad, being worried and being bored. Also, raising emotionally vulnerable boys and other useful parenting nuggets. Lastly, in this episode I am deeply disturbed to answer listeners’ questions about developmentally appropriate ways to discuss mass shootings.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:05.0	Hello and welcome to Raising Good Humans.
0:07.4	I'm Dr. Eliza and today's guest is comedian, writer, actor,
0:11.9	and author Michael Ian Black.
0:14.5	And I'm using Michael's awesome children's books
0:16.9	in his I'm series, I'm sad, I'm bored, I'm worried,
0:20.9	and hopefully more to come, to discuss how to talk to kids about these
0:24.5	kinds of tricky feelings. We also talked about the big picture of raising
0:28.1	children and Michael's perspective on the state of boys from his op-ed in the
0:31.9	New York Times as a reaction to the mass
0:34.3	shooting in Parkland and then stick around for the show notes because unfortunately
0:38.9	I've received a lot of questions about I have an unlikely and awesome guest today. Thank you, Michaelian Black.
0:57.0	Wait, why unlikely?
0:58.0	Well, because I mean you're an incredible children's book writer but it seems like you have a huge audience for your comedy and your acting and you're writing for adults.
1:08.0	Right, but I'm raising humans.
1:11.0	Right, and I bet you're raising good humans is my guess.
1:14.0	I'm not willing to say that, but I'm definitely raising humans.
1:17.0	How old are they?
1:18.0	18 and 16.
1:20.0	So the 18-year-old, you're close to knowing whether or not that one's a good one right?
1:24.6	Yeah, he's fine. Yeah, he's fine. Yeah, he's fine. Well, you know, that's kind of a question that I have for you, but I was going to ask later, but maybe I'll ask you right maybe we'll just
1:34.1	jump right into it what what would that mean for you like when you're both your kids
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