Please Yell at My Kids: Surprising Lessons from Global Parenting Styles | Marina Lopes (EP30)
Clear Intentions with Diane Boden
Diane Boden
4.8 • 952 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
What can American parents learn from Brazilian birth parties, Danish babies napping outside, or Singaporean grandparents deeply involved in childcare? In this episode, journalist Marina Lopes shares insights from her new book, Please Yell at My Kids: What Cultures Around the World Can Teach You About Parenting and Community. Marina takes us on a global tour of parenting practices, highlighting the power of community, cultural traditions, and rethinking societal norms. Marina invites us to question the pressures we accept as normal and consider more connected, balanced ways to raise kids. This conversation is a refreshing, practical look at how shifting our mindset could make parenting more joyful—and less lonely.
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Marina Lopes is a Brazilian-American journalist who has covered feminism, caregiving, and motherhood across five continents. From 2016 to 2020, she reported on Brazil for The Washington Post, covering everything from female shamans in the Amazon to mothers affected by gang violence and the Zika epidemic. Her work on the Venezuelan diaspora was nominated for a Pulitzer. She lives in Washington, DC, with her husband and two children.
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| 0:00.0 | So much of what we assume is normal or right or wrong depends on where you grow up. |
| 0:06.0 | It does take a village and I find that so many of my American friends want that village and don't know where to start. |
| 0:12.1 | Well, the one that shocked me the most and it was the first chapter that I wrote in the book was the Brazilian tradition of birth parties. |
| 0:19.8 | After I came home from Mozambique, I saw just how much |
| 0:22.5 | children are capable of. In Mozambique, children as young as five are starting fires and making |
| 0:28.8 | lunch and going to the store to purchase items. And I saw this having a five-year-old at home. |
| 0:34.7 | And I thought, my gosh, I never thought she would be capable of that I often |
| 0:39.3 | picture childhood in America the child has a spotlight and we are the stage hands moving around in all |
| 0:44.7 | black trying to make sure they don't see all the work that goes into giving them you know everything that we |
| 0:49.5 | can give them I think we can flate hardship with Trump, right? |
| 0:54.5 | And just because something is hard does not mean it's bad for you. |
| 0:58.3 | And I'd much rather my 6-year-old learn that he can do hard things than my 36-year-old |
| 1:03.0 | have to learn that, right, the hard way. |
| 1:06.2 | What can American parents learn from Brazilian birth parties, Danish babies napping outside, |
| 1:11.6 | or Singaporean grandparents deeply involved in child care? In this episode, journalist Marina Lopez |
| 1:17.6 | shares insights from her new book, Please Yell at My Kids, What Cultures Around the World can |
| 1:22.6 | teach you about parenting and community. Marina takes us on a global tour of parenting practices, highlighting the |
| 1:29.2 | power of community, cultural traditions, and rethinking societal norms. Marina invites us to question |
| 1:35.0 | the pressure we accept as normal and consider more connected, balanced ways to raise kids. |
| 1:41.0 | This conversation is a refreshing, practical look at how shifting our mindset could make |
| 1:45.0 | parenting more joyful, less lonely, and maybe a little bit different than what you're used to. |
| 1:49.5 | I truly can't wait to get into this episode, but before we get there, I quickly want to thank |
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