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Welcome to Raising Good Humans. I'm Dr. Alisa Pressman and I'm thrilled to have Madeline Levine.

Madeline Levine is a psychologist and bestselling author of some of my favorite parenting books.

She wrote The Price of Privilege, Teacher, Children Well, and her new book, Ready or Not,

Preparing Our Kids to Thrive in An Uncertain and Rapidly Changing World is awesome.

And really important right now. So, today we're talking about raising kids in a vuka world.

Vuka is an army term for volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity.

Setting our kids up for resilience in an age of uncertainty is so on our minds.

If you enjoy this episode, please don't forget to subscribe, rate, write a review, and of course,

keep DMing me on my Instagram at Raising Good Humans Podcast so that I can answer your

listener questions on bonus episodes and on videos. Part of what had me decide to do this book was

maybe five years ago. I went to get a mortgage at my local bank, First Republic, and I had the

head of the mortgage department. And as I'm leaving up three grown sons, my youngest son at that time,

19 or so, says to me, can I go with you? And I said sure. So he goes with me and

this woman and I have, I don't know, an hour and 20 minute conversation. And Jeremy, it's just

being who he is, which is a very thoughtful empathic kind of kid. So in this hour, hour and a half,

twice he says, hey mom, I think the meter is going to run out. You want me to put in a quarter?

Sure. And my voice is always ragged. So at one point, he said, I saw there was tea out there.

Would you like me to get you some tea? And then he turns to the woman and says, you know,

I'm going to get it from my mom. Would you like it? An hour and a half later, I get my mortgage.

She turns to my son and says, you've got a job here. I want to hire you. And so once the initial shock

wore off, I'm like, you don't know anything about my son. You don't know his age. You don't know

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