How To Raise Kids in a Nation Full of Guns

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🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Guns are now the leading cause of death for children in America. Each tragedy can be visceral, whether it’s in your community or across the country. And it’s especially heartbreaking when your kid voices that fear directly, as our listener Allison recently experienced. On this episode of How To!, co-host Amanda Ripley brings in Melinda Wenner Moyer. Melinda is an author and science journalist with years covering gun violence and parenting issues. She’s also the author of the substack, Is My Kid the Asshole? where she shares science-based approaches to lower the possibility of gun violence, help kids feel safe, and, ultimately, change the environment. If you liked this episode, check out: “My Kid’s Anxiety Is Giving ME Anxiety! How Do I Fix This?” Do you wonder how best to use your time? Send us a note at [email protected] or leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001 and we might have you on the show. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you’ll also be supporting the work we do here on How To!. Sign up now at slate.com/howtoplus to help support our work. Make an impact this Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month by helping Macy’s on their mission to fund APIA Scholars. Go to macys.com/purpose to learn more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It was interesting when Rosie got back to me saying that you wanted to talk
0:04.0	about it because the acknowledgement actually made me want to retract the
0:09.8	question like no no no that's hysterical. I mean if we don't look at it
0:14.5	directly we can still ignore it and send our kids to school every day.
0:22.1	Welcome to How To. I'm Amanda Ripley. It's kind of funny how often this happens.
0:27.6	A listener will reach out to us with a really hard and important vulnerable
0:33.4	question. And then the morning after they'll have second thoughts. They'll
0:39.1	wonder am I crazy? Is that question crazy? Is it just too hard to even talk
0:45.4	about? Well that's actually our specialty here at How To. Because what we found
0:51.4	is no matter how complicated and frustrating the problem it doesn't get
0:56.9	easier if we don't talk about it. So my name is Allison and I live in Madison
1:03.0	Wisconsin. I have a ninth grader and a sixth grader and oh I'm all hot and
1:11.0	sweaty. I don't know that that's relative. Yeah. Do you feel nervous just because
1:17.5	with me? Oh my gosh so so nervous. I don't usually on a regular basis speak to
1:23.9	people. I work in a lab by myself. My kids are quiet. There was this pandemic
1:30.0	that enhanced all of the quiet. Sure sure. Yeah. This is a really heavy subject
1:37.0	and I don't think we should discount that and I think it's kind of tempting to
1:43.1	pretend this isn't happening. This is true. 50 million kids went to school last
1:49.3	week. All but three of them came home. If we were talking about drug
1:55.7	effectiveness that would be worth the risk. But we're talking about our kids.
2:03.2	Guns are now the leading cause of death for children in America killing more
2:07.1	kids than car accidents which is utterly heartbreaking. And most of the time
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