In this episode, Highlights talks with Dr. Madeline Levine, author of Ready or Not: Preparing Our Kids to Thrive in an Uncertain and Rapidly Changing World, about the many challenges of raising children today. Listen in as we discuss:

• What grown-ups can do about kids’ increasing sense of fatalism about their lives
• Why we should treat school-age kids the same way we treat kids learning to walk
• How long-term thinking can ease our stress about day-to-day parenting decisions