Life Kit presents: What's in a dad?

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🗓️ 18 June 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Code Switch host Gene Demby and comedian Hari Kondabolu are both new fathers, and they're both learning to raise kids who will have very different identities and upbringings than their own. It's left both of them reflecting on some big questions: How will they teach their children about race? What are the elements of their childhoods that they want to pass on? And what, exactly, is a father anyway?

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0:00.0	Hey again listeners, you've heard a lot of advice on our show about parenting and navigating
0:05.3	identity.
0:06.7	Our friends over at CodeSwitch had a great conversation about the complexities of
0:10.0	fatherhood and what it really means to be a dad.
0:12.9	And we wanted to share it with all of you.
0:15.3	Hope you enjoy.
0:16.3	You're listening to CodeSwitch, the show about race and identity from NPR.
0:21.0	I'm Gene Demby.
0:22.5	And not that long ago, we did one of our favorite kinds of episodes, Ask CodeSwitch.
0:27.4	Because where we take often very personal questions about race and identity that we get
0:31.9	from y'all, the listeners of CodeSwitch nation and try to report them out and contextualize
0:36.9	them and offer up some advice.
0:38.8	And those are often like our most contentious episodes because people have very strong
0:42.7	feelings about the answers we get from experts and the conclusions we arrive at, you know,
0:48.5	like all advice.
0:49.5	But on a recent Ask CodeSwitch episode, we focused on race and parenting.
0:53.3	That is how we should go about talking about these big questions around identity with our
0:59.4	parents.
1:00.4	How do you set boundaries with immigrant parents?
1:02.2	I think it's disrespectful to set boundaries.
1:04.4	Where does the idea that certain small physical traits like having straightened hair or too
1:09.9	grown come from?
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