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Today, Explained

Generation Gentle Parent

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Many millennials are pushing back against traditional parenting styles used by their boomer parents. We explore the confusion and chaos in today's parenting with a mom and her mom. This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Miranda Kennedy, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Andrea Kristinsdottir and Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members James Austin Johnson as a gentle parenting father during an "Airport Parade" sketch on SNL. Photo by Will Heath/NBC via Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Gentle parenting is hard, even for the super practitioners like influencer Olivia Owen.

0:07.0

And when you're all done, then we can get you down and you can go play the toys.

0:13.0

It's hard to hear a toddler out.

0:16.0

So we definitely will get in the face of our toddler and ask him how he's feeling and help him have

0:21.4

feelings worth.

0:22.3

It's hard to explain this mess to your boomer parents.

0:25.1

And I think that they are super skeptical of what we're doing.

0:30.5

And it is very, very hard for your parents to understand what you even think you're doing.

0:35.0

It's just exhausting.

0:37.7

They just go round and round and round and round talking.

0:42.1

So why are we doing it?

0:44.0

Ahead today explained is for the children.

0:47.1

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Today, today, X-ray.

1:41.8

So cute.

1:43.6

Growing up, we had a wooden paddle that was just always sitting out and if we misbehaved or acted out

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