Raising Functional + Kind Kids (with Catherine Newman)

Edit Your Life | Simplify + Declutter Your Home, Time, and Mental Space

Edit Your Life Show

Society & Culture

4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

There are obvious reasons why it’s a good thing to teach kids to be functional human beings. But learning how to do things and how to be helpful and kind has deeper importance, impacts relationships, and is backed by science. Christine talks to Catherine Newman, author of “How to Be a Person: 65 Hugely Useful, Super-Important Skills to Learn Before You're Grown Up.” Christine and Catherine talk about the connection between happiness and being a functional human being, why it matters for relationships and community, and more. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that shares practical ideas for decluttering your home, schedule, and mental space without getting bogged down by perfection. Visit edityourlifeshow.com for show notes and to connect with host Christine Koh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Edit Your Life podcast. I'm Christine Co.
0:09.7	And I'm Asha Dornfest, and we're here to help you edit the unnecessary from your life so you have more room to enjoy the awesome.
0:16.6	We share practical ways to declutter your home schedule and mental space without getting bogged down by perfection.
0:22.4	And we believe that baby steps are the key to getting there.
0:26.5	Hello, listeners, Christine here.
0:28.6	And I am delighted to have a wonderful guest on the line today.
0:33.0	Catherine Newman.
0:34.0	Hello, Catherine.
0:35.2	Hi, Christine.
0:36.7	Can you hear me smiling? I'm so happy to be. I can hear it. I can hear it. And I am after, as I said to you before, we officially started after a morning that I started burning sage, like being able to talk to you, the smile is real.
0:51.1	Same. Yeah. Well, I have wanted to have you on this show for ages, and I'm so thrilled.
0:59.2	It's finally happening.
1:00.7	Me too.
1:01.4	Yeah.
1:01.8	And actually, even though your latest book, you are a multi-book author, but your latest book, I should have
1:09.7	talked to you earlier, But hey, better late
1:12.1	than never and the timing is perfect right now. Oh, yeah. Oh my God. I'm thrilled, honestly,
1:16.6	to get to talk about it with you now. Yeah. Perfect for me. Well, let's actually begin. I'm getting
1:21.5	ahead of myself. We really should start with a little basic backstory. And I was just wondering,
1:26.4	you know, for listeners who may not be
1:28.4	familiar with you or love you and just want to hear the story again, if you could give us like
1:33.1	a little intro into your life, I also need to know what your PhD is in. So anyway, can you do that?
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