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Welcome to Kind World.

Welcome to Kind World. I'm Andrea Aswahay. And I'm Yasminammer. Okay, it's T minus like, I don't know, eight days maybe. It's supposed to be next week, but I am so nervous about having a baby.

I'm so excited that we're able to share this with our audience and our listeners because I'm so excited for you it's

going to be great. Well there's a lot to think about you know we're getting the

nursery together haven't done a great job with that, but we're mostly there.

But, you know, there's a lot of nervous about beyond just like the initial stuff of getting things ready.

It's really scary to think about having a kid. You know, there's

this little being and you're going to help shape his little personality.

Yeah, and I assume a lot of that fear comes from not really being able to control how you can shape and

what you can do and you know there's so many outside factors.

Yeah outside factors that are completely outside of my control.

But you know, my husband and I have been having those conversations.

Like, what do we want to prioritize when we're raising our child?

And I find myself thinking back to a really interesting piece from the Atlantic.

It's titled, Stop Trying to Raise Successful Kids.

And it's by husband and wife Adam and Allison Grant.

Here's Adam.

I think that parents are over-emphasizing success

at the expense of caring and kindness.

And I think that they should stop it. And I think that they should stop it.

And I think that because the evidence is clear that in the long run, the kids who achieve the greatest success

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