What’s the Best Way to Raise Good People? A Debate

Honestly with Bari Weiss

The Free Press

News, Society & Culture

4.6 • 7.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2022

⏱️ 79 minutes

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There is no subject—not Trump, not abortion, not immigration, not taxes-–that is more contentious than the one we tackle today: parenting. This subject has particular urgency because my wife is pregnant! As are two of my producers. But you don’t need to be pregnant to be curious about the following: What is the right way to raise kids who become good, responsible, kind adults? Can we blame our problems as adults on our parents? What about Or do parenting styles not really matter? Is it nature that determines just about everything? That–and a thousand more questions–are what we discuss on today’s show. So today: a debate with three parenting experts who have radically different ideas about raising kids. Bryan Caplan, an economics professor at George Mason, is the author of “Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids.” Michaelleen Doucleff is a NPR global health correspondent and the author of “Hunt, Gather, Parent.” And Carla Naumburg is a clinical social worker and the author of “How to Stop Losing Your Sh*t With Your Kids.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.5	contentious topics in America, like should America
0:35.4	intervene militarily in Ukraine.
0:38.1	What should be the role of trans-athletes in women's sports, from questions about institutional racism to free speech to the
0:44.8	lab leak, we're not afraid to go there. But as I prepare God willing to become a parent for the first
0:51.0	time in a few months, I am realizing that perhaps the most contentious topic
0:56.4	in America is not pronouns, is not failing institutions, is not the culture war or cancel culture it's parenting.
1:05.0	I tell you something once you do it then.
1:08.0	You don't do it then I'm a spank.
1:09.0	If I don't like your behavior it's okay for me to be violent and that's...
1:12.0	No, it's not. If to be violent and that's you know it's not
1:13.0	If I don't like your behavior you're gonna be so if I don't like your behavior it's
1:17.8	okay for me to hit no that is not going to be able your team nowhere is the internet more alive and more vicious than in matters of how to raise your kids.
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