Episode 21: How Culture Affects Our Parenting with Melina Gac Levin

No One Told Us

Rachael Shepard-Ohta

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9 • 590 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Episode 21: How Culture Affects Our Parenting with Melina Gac Levin of @parentpueblo Join Rachael and guest Melina Gac Levin, as they have important conversations around culture and how it shapes the way we view our kids and parent. They discuss what conversations parents should have with each other before they have kids about how each culture may impact their parenting and hear some advice Melina would offer to parents who come from different cultural backgrounds who are navigating potential conflicts or differences in parenting approaches. They chat about some strategies for parents who want to blend different cultural parenting approaches and traditions and how cultural values and beliefs influence the way parents make decisions about their children’s sleep, language, behavior, plus so much more! Melina is an early childhood development specialist, graduate professor, writer, and mother. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband, Mike, and their two daughters. Melina’s professional background is as an educator and she spent over 10 years in the classroom. She holds dual masters in Infant and Family Development, Early Intervention & Early Childhood General and Special Education from Bank Street, where she now teaches graduate students in education and social work all about infant development. She is also the founder of PUEBLO which equips multicultural parents with the skills and knowledge to parent confidently together. Freebie on discovering Your Parenting Values: designed to help couples understand themselves and each other, so they can have more nuanced and productive conversations moving forward Pueblo Website: https://www.parentpueblo.com Melina’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parentpueblo/ Rachael is a mom of 3, founder of Hey, Sleepy Baby, and the host of this podcast. Instagram (Show page) Tiktok (Rachael's tiktok account) Show Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to No One Told Us. Today we're here with Melina Gack Levin, and Melina is an early childhood
0:09.4	development specialist, a graduate professor, a writer, and a mother living in Brooklyn, New York,
0:14.7	with her husband and their two daughters. Melina's professional background is as an educator,
0:20.3	and she's spent over 10 years in the
0:22.4	classroom. She holds dual masters in infant and family development and early intervention and
0:27.8	early childhood general and special education. We could nerd on that stuff all day, I'm sure.
0:34.5	And actually, I met Melina for the first time over on Hey Sleep Sleepy Baby, because you were one of the families that we featured as a day in the life. Back when I was doing those a lot more often, I really need to get going on those again. They're so fun. But yeah, we got to see like a little peek inside your life and we connected that way. And it was wonderful. So Melina, thank you so much for being here today. I'm
0:55.3	really excited to talk with you. Can you just start by giving us like a little more of a personal
1:00.1	intro than what I just gave and telling us all about your work that you're doing now?
1:04.6	Absolutely. Thank you. I'm so excited to be talking with you. I really am. And I think our like day in the life might still even be up there
1:12.5	in the highlights. I think it is. I think I saved it to my highlights because I just loved it so much.
1:16.7	It was really fun to do. And I think I've been following you not since the very beginning, but close.
1:22.0	Because our oldest, I think, are fairly close in age. I have a six-year-old and a three-year-old.
1:29.8	Our stories are somewhat similar in that we started in the classroom, and then it was having children that kind of compelled me to do a
1:34.9	different type of work. I was really interested in doing parents support, and so when I had my
1:39.9	first daughter, I actually went back to the classroom for a year, but after that I left to focus on doing
1:45.6	workshops for parents. I was doing, you know, parent groups, consultations. It was going really well,
1:52.5	and I was like slowly building this little community that I was really enjoying. And then I got
1:56.9	pregnant with my second daughter. And I was all set to take a maternity leave
2:02.1	and then COVID happened.
2:04.3	Yeah, such a similar story to mine because, yeah, our kids are so close in age and that was
2:08.9	such a weird time.
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