Before we get into our episode, I wanted to let you know that this week our recent

debater, Anthony Scaramucci, launched a new podcast.

It is called Open Book.

And in it, he sits down with some of the brightest and most fascinating minds in the worlds

of business, and entertainment, and politics, and finance, and others to tackle the issues

of our time and to discuss how their work is shaping our future.

You can find Open Book on Apple podcasts, on Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

But if you missed Anthony's debate with Cara Swisher, where we asked the question, is Elon

Musk killing Twitter?

It dropped last week, so we can go back and give that a listen to now onto our debate.

Hey everybody, I'm John Donovan, host and moderator of Intelligent Squared US Debates,

and in this episode, we're taking on a topic that's going to hit close to home.

I'm pretty sure for all of us because it concerns the way we were raised, our upbringings,

and we've all had one of those one way or another.

But how much did your upbringing actually influence who you turned out to be?

Today, parents and caretakers in general are under so much pressure to produce a kid

who is going to be the happiest or the best at something or fill in whatever your preferred

superlative is.

Free range parenting, helicopter parenting, Tiger Mom parenting, what's the right choice?

What are you supposed to do?

But what if science is here to tell you, don't sweat it.

It's mostly out of your control as a parent because it's your kid's DNA that says the

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