‘The Next Big Idea Daily’: How to Raise Great Kids in a Messed-Up World

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🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Science journalist Melinda Wenner Moyer, shares research-backed strategies for parenting with compassion, curiosity, and resilience from her new book, Hello, Cruel World!: Science-Based Strategies for Raising Terrific Kids in Terrifying Times. 📱 Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen 📩 Want more bite-sized insights from the best new nonfiction delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for our Book of the Day newsletter

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0:00.0	Good morning, Michael Kovnaut.
0:01.9	Hey, Rufus.
0:03.1	What's coming up on the next big idea daily this week?
0:06.2	Well, you'll never believe it, but I've got planned some big ideas.
0:10.7	You know, week after week, I find that to be true.
0:13.6	You deliver to me, Michael, big ideas that stretch my medium-sized brain.
0:17.9	That's kind of the goal.
0:19.6	What I do, as you know, is I find what
0:22.5	we think are the best, most interesting new nonfiction books, and we ask the authors to summarize
0:27.1	them in 15 minutes or less, five key insights. Bight-sized chunks that listeners can enjoy with their
0:34.0	morning cup of coffee. Yes, they can. And this week, we've got a lot of good stuff.
0:38.8	We've got ideas about the strangeness of the human brain, ideas about how to find your
0:44.0	passion in life, no matter how old you are, and some science-based strategies for raising
0:49.7	terrific kids in terrifying times. Oh, wow. That's super relevant to me.
0:55.5	Very curious about that one.
0:57.3	Yeah, well, that's going to be today's episode.
0:59.3	It comes to us from science journalist Melinda Wenner Moyer.
1:03.5	She's someone who's written a lot about parenting.
1:05.7	Her previous book was called How to Raise Kids Who Aren't Asholes.
1:09.9	I love that title and I love that ambition.
1:12.8	Yeah, me too.
1:13.6	And her new book is called Hello Cruel World.
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