How To Go On a Family Adventure
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Can a family travel around the world for a year without killing each other? Dan Kois spent a year in New Zealand, The Netherlands, Costa Rica and Kansas with his wife Alia and their two young daughters, learning how other cultures parent. The result is How to Be A Family: The Year I Dragged My Kids Around the World. In this episode of How To! we learn the secret to traveling together for that long. And what do you do when everyone is tired and whiny and wants to go home?
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| 0:00.0 | And so the reason I had asked you guys to come on today is because this is a show called How to have a family adventure. |
| 0:09.0 | And you guys recently had a big family adventure right? |
| 0:13.2 | Definitely the ultimate family adventure if you define ultimate as the last one will ever do. |
| 0:19.2 | Welcome to how to I'm Charles Dewey. On today's show we're doing something a little bit different. |
| 0:29.1 | All that's kids come with me and let's find you a stand. |
| 0:32.8 | Yay! |
| 0:33.8 | We're talking with one of my colleagues here at Slate, |
| 0:36.1 | Dan Coise. |
| 0:37.1 | I'm Dan Coise. |
| 0:38.2 | I'm an editor at Slate, and I'm the author of a book called |
| 0:40.6 | How to Be a Family. |
| 0:42.2 | A little while ago, Dan, his wife, Alya, and their two daughters, |
| 0:45.0 | they did something kind of crazy. |
| 0:47.0 | They decided to abandon everything they know and love for a full year, |
| 0:51.0 | travel around the world, and write a book about it. |
| 0:54.4 | I'm Laura Coise. |
| 0:55.9 | I'm a ninth grader. |
| 0:57.8 | I'm Harper Coise. |
| 0:59.4 | I'm a seventh grader. |
| 1:01.0 | In 2017, the Coise family left Washington, D.C DC and they moved to New Zealand and then to the |
| 1:06.1 | Netherlands and then to Costa Rica and finally to a small town in Kansas. |
| 1:11.4 | They spent three months in each place and they tried to figure out what do you learn when |
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