Biological anthropologist Brenna Hassett talks about how childhood as we know it was created, why difficult pregnancies are a clue to the kind of children we want, and how fossil records can point us toward how we’ve evolved to raise children today.
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Emily Weinstein of Harvard’s Graduate School of Education talks about the ways teenagers navigate their online world and how parents can better understand their pull to be always connected.
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Senior culture writer at The Washington Post Helena Andrews-Dyer talks about raising a Black child in a predominately white, upper-middle-class world, where her concerns about race led her to consider larger themes of belonging.
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Jancee Dunn discusses the ways her own child has siphoned off focus from her husband, and how culturally we have become accustomed to this interference.
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Principal investigator Emily Weinstein talks about the ways teenagers navigate their online world and to offer support to parents struggling to understand their teens’ drive to always be connected.
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Andrew Bomback is an associate professor of medicine at Columbia University. He offers advice on how to break free of the intense cultural pressure surrounding parenting.
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Britt Hawthorne is an anti-bias and antiracist facilitator, and she discusses how to raise global citizens who embrace all races.
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Lara Bazelon argues that pursuing career goals is central to raising healthy, happy children – and that aspiration is part of the work-life balance.
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Heather Lanier joins us to discuss the personal struggles she faces parenting her daughter, a child with a very rare genetic disorder, while navigating a world that expects parents to raise high-achieving children.
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Susan Golombok, director of the Centre for Family Research at the University of Cambridge and a professional fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge, joins us to talk about the outdated ideas we have about creating a happy home and the variety of parents out there who are thriving.
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Lynn Berger joins us to talk about the origins of birth order psychology and whether the roles we’re assigning children are based in fact or fiction.
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Clinical psychologist Vinita Mehta joins us to talk about how nearly one in four children worldwide have a parent with mental illness and how that can affect both child development and the parent-child relationship into adulthood.
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