How to Be a Happier Parent, With Author KJ Dell’Antonia

The Upgrade by Lifehacker

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Tech News, News, How To, Education, Self-improvement

4.6 • 688 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

KJ Dell’Antonia—journalist and author of How to Be a Happier Parent: Raising a Family, Having a Life, and Loving (Almost) Every Minute—joins Offspring editor Michelle Woo to discuss how to make your family life less stressful and even (dare we say it) fun. But first, Alice gives staff writer and soon-to-be new parent Nick Douglas an important (note: not really important) parenting quiz. Finally, we’ve got a playlist of non-kid songs that your kids will love as much as you do. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the upgrade, the podcast from the team at LifeHacker, where we help you improve your life one week at a time.
0:17.5	I'm Alice Bradley, LifeHackers deputy editor.
0:20.1	I'm Nick Douglas, LifeHacker's staff writer. I'm Nick Douglas, Lifehacker's staff
0:21.7	writer. Melissa Kirsch is away this week, and we are sad. But we're going to recover, because
0:26.3	this week we're talking about parenting. Whether you're a new parent or you're a way too
0:30.7	experienced, parenting never seems to get easier, until you have grandkids, at which point I hear
0:35.6	it's a real joyride. Until then, though,
0:37.9	we're here to help. First, we've got LifeHackers parenting editor, Michelle Wu, interviewing journalist
0:43.0	and author KJ. Del Antonia. KJ. is a former New York Times reporter, an editor of the Motherload
0:49.4	blog for the Times, whose new book is called How to Be a Happier Parent, Raising a Family, Having a Life,
0:55.8	and Loving Almost Every Minute.
0:57.5	I just got to thinking, if this is what I wanted, there ought to be a way for me to, like,
1:02.7	make it feel like what I wanted.
1:04.8	Next, Lifehacker Readers supply a playlist for parents who are sick to death of kids' music
1:09.3	and want songs the whole family can
1:11.1	enjoy.
1:11.7	So a firm favorite at the moment is Karma Chameleon by Culture Club.
1:16.3	But first, it's Quiz Show.
1:19.5	I am going to quiz Nick on obscure and not very obscure baby facts.
1:25.5	Nick should know these things as he's about to be a new parent. Congratulations,
1:29.7	Nick. Thanks. Oh, boy. Cackle. First of all, how are you feeling about this? This whole thing.
1:37.2	I'm now feeling it nervous that I don't feel nervous enough. Uh-huh. Sure. That feels like maybe a good
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