Rethinking Parenting Expectations & Pressure (with Ben & Gabrielle Blair)

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Edit Your Life Show

Society & Culture

4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Stressed or freaked out by the immense pressures of modern parenting? Christine chats with Ben and Gabrielle Blair about their book, The Kids Are Alright: Parenting with Confidence in an Uncertain World. They talk about the power of listening, lowering the stakes, college stress, fostering independence in kids, and more. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that offers tips, recommendations, and expert advice to simplify and declutter your home, schedule, to-do list, relationships, and mental space. Connect with host Christine Koh at edityourlifeshow@gmail.com or DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Edit Your Life, a podcast to help you edit the unnecessary from your life so you have more room to enjoy the awesome.
0:12.3	Through episodes with me, Christine Coe, and a range of smart, compassionate guests, you will come away with insights and tactics to help you find the agency in space to simplify and
0:22.0	declutter your home, time, mental space, and more.
0:26.8	Hello, friends.
0:28.0	I'm so excited to bring you today's conversation, which I believe is my first ever couple
0:33.5	interview.
0:34.7	I'm talking today to Ben and Gabrielle Blair, the authors of the new book,
0:39.1	The Kids Are All Right, Parenting with Confidence in an Uncertain World. I have known Gabby Blair for
0:45.2	almost the entirety of my career since leaving academia, and she is an incredible, multi-dimensional,
0:51.4	creative tour to force online and in person. And this conversation was a real treat
0:57.1	also in that it reflects my first conversation with Ben, who I've met quickly in passing at
1:02.2	conferences. It was just so wonderful to absorb in real time his thoughtful, grounded perspective.
1:09.0	What a duo these two are. This compact book is a beautiful reflection
1:13.6	of humility, self-awareness, respect, and care. There were so many moments reading it where I
1:20.7	thought to myself, yes, this. And among the most powerful was in reading the letter Gabby and Ben
1:27.1	wrote one of their kids regarding religion.
1:30.4	That letter alone, in its acknowledgement, respect, love, and openness is a parenting masterclass in and of itself.
1:38.9	Let's get right to the conversation.
1:42.2	Hello and welcome Ben and Gabrielle. Congratulations on the kids are all right parenting with conversation. Hello and welcome Ben and Gabrielle. Congratulations on the kids are all right,
1:47.6	parenting with confidence in an uncertain world. It's a thing of beauty in many ways. I'm so happy
1:53.5	for this framing and these stories to launch into the world. Welcome. Thank you, Christine.
1:59.0	We're so, so happy to be here. It's very, very exciting. And I have a lot
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