How Not to Become Your Parents

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🗓️ 12 May 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Are we destined to parent the way our parents parented even if we strongly object to some of the things they did? Sure, we can probably keep ourselves from dropping cigarette ashes in our toddler’s cereal, but when things get chaotic do we snap the same way our parents did? In her article “The Parent Prophecy” in The Atlantic, Faith Hill says there are elements of Greek tragedy in it all, “parents run away from their parents and sometimes end up right back in the same spot.” What do you do, for better or worse, that your parents did? And are things your parents did with you that you wish you were able to do with your kids? Guests: Faith Hill, senior associate editor of Family, The Atlantic - She wrote the article, "The Parenting Prophecy" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.6	When I had kids, one of the scariest and most delightful things about it, was the sound effects.
0:55.9	At some point, I realized the way that I said a hummingbird flew, zoom, or how I called a cat would pass on to them. And that
1:03.9	transmission came, of course, from my parents, who taught me not just how to love and learn, but also
1:09.1	all the other teensy things in life.
1:11.6	And mostly just by what they did, not what they said.
1:14.8	Which raises the larger question in an essay by Faith Hill in the Atlantic.
1:19.3	Are we destined to become our parents, whether we want to or not?
1:23.8	She'll join us this hour, and maybe you'll even hear from my mom.
1:27.1	That's coming up next
1:28.1	after this news.
1:36.7	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. For much of human history, the idea that you'd end up
1:42.9	like your parents would not have been surprising.
1:45.4	I mean, regular people in pre-industrial England, say, might never travel more than a few days
1:50.5	walk from where they were born. They'd probably do something to make a living much like their
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