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Simple Families

SFP 126: How to Give Your Child the Very Best [with Bill Deresiewicz, author of Excellent Sheep]

Simple Families

Cloud10 and iHeartPodcasts

Kids & Family, Education For Kids, Parenting

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

As parents, we just want to give our kids the best. We want to give them opportunities and send them to the best colleges. Sometimes that means signing them up for all the classes and starting the resumé in the earliest years. In today’s episode I am chatting with author Bill Deresiewicz. We are discussing the disconnection between the pursuit of success and happiness. Show Notes/Links: The Book: Excellent Sheep Revisiting the Value of Elite Colleges How to Raise an Adult How to Raise Successful Kids Without Overparenting [Ted Talks] Author Bill Deresiewicz The post SFP 126: How to Give Your Child the Very Best [with Bill Deresiewicz, author of Excellent Sheep] appeared first on Simple Families.

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0:00.0

Hi it's episode number 126 and today we're talking about the desire to give our children the very best

0:07.8

You are listening to the simple families podcast a Q&A style show that brings you solutions for living well with family.

0:15.0

Here's your host, Deney Barajona.

0:18.0

Hi there, thanks so much for tuning in.

0:20.0

This is Deney and this is episode 126. And today we're wrapping up this month on conversation around

0:26.2

rethinking education.

0:28.2

We started by talking about babies and toddlers and then we talked about children and

0:31.6

now we're going to talk about adolescents and college age students.

0:35.0

While this might seem like a change of pace from the usual early childhood topics that I cover,

0:40.0

it's relevant because it's something that we think about as parents.

0:43.7

The children of today are involved in a lot of activities.

0:47.9

Whether or not parents realize that on some level they are building

0:50.9

a resume of sorts for their children.

0:53.0

We put our kids into classes and specialized training programs from a young age

0:57.0

because we want to give them the very best.

1:00.0

And that's what we're talking about today.

1:02.0

What does that mean? What is the very best for your child?

1:05.0

That's going to look a lot different for every family.

1:08.0

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1:11.0

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1:18.0

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1:23.0

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