Tough Questions For The World's Toughest Job

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Mother's Day is coming up, so we're taking on your most difficult questions around parenting. We'll talk about choosing a school, raising bilingual children, modeling gender identity, and what to do if your kid's afraid of black people.

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0:00.0	Maybe is this so cute aren't they?
0:09.4	My biological clock is about to explode.
0:12.2	That's a little, that's a lot of information for all of you.
0:14.5	But yes, I love hanging out with kids, my little niece Ryan.
0:16.9	She's so cute.
0:17.9	Is this it?
0:18.9	Oh my gosh, she's so cute.
0:19.9	She's four years old, I love her so much.
0:22.6	My son says he's afraid of black people.
0:25.6	Wait.
0:26.6	What?
0:27.6	What?
0:28.6	My husband is adamant that our daughter will not go to public school.
0:32.6	Hmm?
0:33.6	Wait, I'm sorry.
0:34.6	His biological family was very upset by this and claimed we were going against his culture
0:39.4	by allowing him to paint his nails.
0:41.2	Hold on.
0:42.2	What?
0:43.2	I'm rethinking this whole wanting to be a parent thing right now.
0:45.6	My biological clock is completely in check.
0:50.8	No longer exploding.
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