Natasha Leggero: Parenting at the End of the World

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Mayim Bialik

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Wellness, Health & Fitness, Comedy, Thebigbangtheory, Spirituality, Selfimprovement, Mentalhealth

4.7 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Natasha Leggero (actress, writer, comedian, author of The World Deserves My Children) opens up about how she arrived to her unique parenting journey later in life and provides an honest approach to parenting and "geriatric" pregnancy. She discusses the impact of her father leaving the family at an early age before he married her mom’s best friend, and what it was like to help raise her younger siblings as a child herself. Natasha reveals what she wishes more people knew about the egg-freezing process, merging her life as a career woman with caring for a child, and the importance of finding the right partner to parent with. Mayim and Natasha compare parenting styles and consider the challenges of parenting in the face of environmental panic. They discuss reasons some might not want to have children, why kids crave structure, and why we shouldn’t condition children with fear.

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0:00.0	Nobody really knows what they're doing.
0:04.2	You know, even these moms, I follow on Instagram, these people with PhDs and early childcare
0:09.6	education and they're always like doing these two cameras telling you the three steps to
0:15.3	you know, how to handle when your child's having a meltdown.
0:18.3	And sometimes I'll even call my husband and I'm like, okay honey, let's try what Dr.
0:22.2	Rachel says.
0:23.2	Okay, now we're going to have to do these three steps and then we do the three steps and
0:27.4	it doesn't work.
0:29.4	And it's just like these people don't know what they're doing either.
0:33.1	Nobody knows.
0:34.1	It's my and B.O.L.X.
0:35.4	Breakdown.
0:36.4	She's going to break it down for you because you know she knows a thing or two.
0:41.6	And now she's going to break down.
0:44.0	It's a breakdown.
0:45.0	She's going to break it down.
0:47.8	Hi, I'm my and B.O.L.X.
0:48.8	And welcome to my breakdown.
0:49.8	This is the place where we break things down so you don't have to.
0:53.6	I am flying solo today.
0:55.9	My partner Jonathan Cohen is not here today, but we're going to be breaking down.
1:01.0	Does the world deserve our children?
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