Fresh Take: Melinda Wenner Moyer on "Raising Terrific Kids in Terrifying Times"

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What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood

Parenting, Kids & Family, Comedy

4.6 • 962 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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How do we raise compassionate and well-adjusted kids when their anxiety is at an all-time high, and so is ours? Melinda Wenner Moyer, author of the new book HELLO CRUEL WORLD, discusses actionable and easy-to-implement steps we can take to prepare our children for the realities of today's complicated world while acknowledging our own uncertainty. Melinda Wenner Moyer is an award-winning contributing editor at Scientific American, a regular contributor to The New York Times, and a former faculty member at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. Melinda, Amy, and Margaret discuss: the issues affecting today's kids that parents didn't grow up dealing with, like social media, climate change, and political polarization how to prepare more than you protect, listen more than you lecture, and comfort more than you chide the power of narrating our own actions out loud to our kids socializing both boys and girls about when it's okay to rest Here's where you can find Melinda: www.melindawennermoyer.com @Lindy2350 on X @melindawmoyer on IG @melindawennermoyer on FB Buy HELLO CRUEL WORLD: https://bookshop.org/a/12099/9780593719367 We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.whatfreshhellpodcast.com/p/promo-codes/⁠⁠⁠⁠ mom friends, funny moms, parenting advice, parenting experts, parenting tips, mothers, families, parenting skills, parenting strategies, parenting styles, busy moms, self-help for moms, manage kid’s behavior, teenager, tween, child development, family activities, family fun, parent child relationship, decluttering, kid-friendly, invisible workload, default parent, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:34.8	What Fresh Hell Laughing in the Face of Motherhood. This is Margaret.
0:38.0	And this is Amy.
0:39.1	Today we are welcoming back Melinda Wenner Moyer.
0:42.5	She is an award-winning contributing editor at Scientific American, a regular contributor to the New York Times, and a former faculty member at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. Melinda also writes the popular
0:56.7	substack newsletter, Now What? I love it. I'm a subscriber. Today, though, we're going to be
1:02.2	talking about Melinda's new book. Hello, Cruel World, Science-Based Strategies for Raising
1:08.2	Terrific Kids in Terrifying Times. Welcome, Melinda. Hi, thank you so much for
1:13.4	having me back. We were just talking before we started recording. You're a rare returning champ
1:18.0	on the podcast. Yay. And you were on years ago and talking about the Genesis kind of and the
1:24.5	ideas behind this book. And here we are with the book. It's very exciting.
1:28.2	Yeah. I'm so excited to be back and those years just like flew by.
1:31.7	Tell me about it. We don't quite know where they go either. Tell me about it. So I'm going to
1:36.3	start, Melinda, with something from your introduction. I'm going to quote this back to you.
1:40.9	It feels to me, and I'm sure I'm not alone in this, you say, that many
1:45.6	issues and threats our children will have to manage weren't nearly so bad for us or other
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