How to Teach Your Kids to Be People, With Author Catherine Newman
The Upgrade by Lifehacker
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4.6 • 688 Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Parenting is a wild and confusing trip—to put it mildly. So this week we’re learning how to teach our kids the ins and outs of how to be decent, responsible, adult people with help from writer Catherine Newman. Catherine is the author of How to Be a Person: 65 Hugely Useful, Super-Important Skills to Learn Before You’re Grown Up.
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| 0:45.7 | That's audible.com slash Wondery UK. Hello and welcome to The Upgrade, the podcast from the team of LifeHacker, where we help you improve your life one week at a time. |
| 1:09.5 | I'm Alice Bradley, editor-in-chief of LifeHacker, |
| 1:11.9 | and today I'm joined by our parenting editor, Megan Walbert. |
| 1:15.1 | Hey, Megan. |
| 1:15.9 | Hey, Alice. |
| 1:16.8 | Megan, today we're tackling a very important issue. |
| 1:19.9 | Indeed, we are. |
| 1:20.8 | We are finally getting to the bottom of how to teach our children how to be people. |
| 1:26.3 | That's right. |
| 1:27.1 | We are learning how to raise them to be good human beings. |
| 1:30.9 | Indeed we are. |
| 1:31.7 | And who better to guide us than author Catherine Newman? |
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