Factual News, Flexible Thinking and Family Moral Imperatives :: Sharon McMahon [Ep 332]

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Education, Leisure, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

News, politics and world events are on a 24-hour and 365-day cycle. Every second something new is happening and keeping up with the latest can be a full time job. Add on top of that the bias inherent in mass media and it can be hard to tell fact from manipulated fiction.

Enter Sharon McMahon, a former high school government and law teacher on a mission to combat political misinformation. With her viral Instagram account @SharonSaysSo, she shares non-partisan facts about the US government and democracy in a way that is easy to understand.

Sharon talks with me about how to be flexible thinkers and to hear both sides of a political issue using the same critical thinking skills she taught her students in high school. We also chat about her motherhood journey and raising kids who can talk respectfully with people who have different viewpoints on the world and politics.

But she doesn’t want you to listen to just her or any one person to learn the news of the day:

“I don't think it is wise to just look at one human, me or your favorite political pundit or anybody, and believe that person is right 100% of the time. It is still your job to consume and figure out using your own brain, the own skills in your head to determine whether or not that aligns for you and whether or not that actually is an accurate depiction of your feelings or viewpoints. So I always caution people. Don't take one person's word as gospel because all humans are fallible.”

Connect with Sharon:

Links Mentioned:

Podcast: https://www.sharonmcmahon.com/podcast
Sharon on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
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0:00.0	Hey y'all, welcome back to the Don't Womalone Podcast.
0:11.5	I'm Heather McFadden, your host, and this is where we get to hang out, and I get to introduce
0:16.9	you to some people and some resources, and then you remember that you don't mom alone.
0:25.1	And this episode is the first one of our fall season. It's number 332, and I get the
0:32.4	honor of chatting with Sharon McMahon, better known as, for Instagram handle, Sharon
0:39.0	Says So.
0:40.0	You're good at what you're good at. Yes.
0:42.5	And guess what? Your children, you are the perfect parent for your children.
0:48.1	Yes.
0:49.1	And your children are meant to grow up with you as a mom. That is their journey in life.
0:55.0	And if you're working outside the home, it is their journey to watch a mom who achieves
1:00.2	and works hard and goes after what they want in a career path.
1:04.5	If you're somebody who is staying home with your children, it is your children's journey
1:08.4	to have a mom who stays home with them. And both of them bring something unique experience
1:15.8	to your children. My mom stayed home with us. My husband's mom worked.
1:21.5	And he does not view his childhood experience as diminished somehow because his mom worked
1:30.0	outside the home. And I don't view my childhood experience diminished because my mom stayed
1:35.8	home with us. We just had different childhoods.
1:39.9	So little behind the scenes on this interview, right before we started recording, I saw
1:45.1	that Sharon was going to be on Good Morning America right after our interview ends and she's
1:52.1	on Good Morning America. And I was starting to feel stressed for her and started to feel
1:56.1	pressure. Like I really got to make sure we end on time. I mean, I'm opening for Good
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