Parenting Check on Letting Kids Travel with Julie Lythcott-Haims
Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Kelly Corrigan Show
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Every Friday for the next 3 weeks, Kelly takes a small but real parenting challenge to her friend Julie Lythcott-Haims, the author of some very good books. This week we’re talking about how to decide when to intervene and when to let the shit hit the fan when our kids are traveling. They missed the train. They lost their luggage. The Uber didn’t show. And so, the ideal parental response is…what? [Join us on Instagram to talk it out @kellycorrigan and subscribe to the pod to catch every episode.]
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Kelly, and at the end of every week, I like to share something true and useful, |
| 0:08.9 | something I stumbled over that gave me a burst of optimism, something you can share with |
| 0:12.7 | friends like an audio greeting card, something to help us all keep our eyes on what's working |
| 0:19.4 | and what could be. |
| 0:20.6 | So, I'll be right back with this week's For The Good of the Order. |
| 0:24.8 | This is Kelly Corgan Wonders. |
| 0:30.0 | So, I thought for the next couple go to is that I might call my friend Julie Lithcott |
| 0:40.2 | Hames, who I really respect as somebody who is working hard to be the kind of parent |
| 0:44.9 | that I aspire to be as well, and I might just put these problems in front of her and ask |
| 0:50.9 | her what to do when reality crashes into the philosophy of parenting that we've subscribed |
| 0:57.1 | to. |
| 0:58.1 | Hi, Julie. |
| 0:59.1 | Hey, Kelly. |
| 1:00.1 | Okay. |
| 1:01.1 | Are you ready? |
| 1:02.1 | Yes. |
| 1:03.1 | I think so. |
| 1:04.1 | You should be afraid. |
| 1:05.1 | Okay. |
| 1:06.1 | Let's say your high school kid is traveling out in the world, planes, trains, automobiles, |
| 1:10.9 | buying tickets, getting directions, packing, re-booking, all the minor catastrophes like |
| 1:14.9 | canceled flights or running a fever or losing their vaccination card. |
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