Introducing How To! With Charles Duhigg
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Is there a right way to let kids struggle and fail? How do you raise resilient children? And most important, when should you help out, and when should you chill out? We ask Dr. Wendy Mogel, author of The Blessing of a Skinned Knee to advise a Portland, Oregon couple who worry about their son getting wet in a squirt gun fight.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, mom and dad are fighting listeners. I'm Dan Quays, one of the hosts of the show. |
| 0:03.8 | You're about to hear an episode of How To with Charles Duhigg. |
| 0:07.5 | It's a new Slate podcast hosted by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author of the power of habit, Charles Duhig. |
| 0:14.3 | On how to, Charles talks with experts to answer listeners' toughest questions. |
| 0:19.1 | It comes out every week, so make sure to subscribe |
| 0:21.3 | and Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:25.3 | In the first few episodes, Charles has tackled how to be funny, |
| 0:28.6 | how to survive a pandemic, even how to rob a bank. |
| 0:31.6 | But we wanted to share this episode with Mom and Dad are fighting listeners |
| 0:34.5 | because this episode called How to Stress to Your Kid the Right Way |
| 0:38.2 | is of great interest, we think, to you guys. It certainly was of great interest to me. It was a |
| 0:43.5 | fantastic and very thought-provoking episode. It features a mom and dad from Portland, Oregon, |
| 0:49.5 | who want to raise a resilient child, but don't know how. So Charles turns to Dr. Wendy Mogul, author of the bestselling book, The Blessing of a Skin Knee. |
| 0:58.6 | Can she help our anxious parents learn when to help out and when to chill out? |
| 1:02.9 | Keep listening and find out. |
| 1:07.1 | If we run in and say, oh, he squirted you in the face and I'm so sorry that happened and what can we do so that will never happen again, then Walter's never going to have any fun. |
| 1:22.5 | And none of the boys are going to want to hang out with him. |
| 1:25.7 | What else are you supposed to do with squirt guns squirted in the sink? |
| 1:32.1 | Welcome to how to. |
| 1:33.5 | I'm Charles Deweig. |
| 1:35.1 | Each week, we talk to listeners who are trying to figure out how to solve one of life's |
| 1:38.9 | problems, like how to survive a pandemic or how to decide to have a baby. |
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