How can and should parents experience enormously stressful / chaotic / scary things at work or in the world with their kids? In the first episode of 2021, Karen and Steve talk about some of their reactions to the armed attack on the Capitol on January 6 and the broader topic of parenting through bad days before a far lighter (and earlier-recorded) conversation with Goldstein & Russell partner Sarah Harrington about transitioning from the government to private practice; the lack of (and need for) more diversity in the Supreme Court and appellate bars; and the life of parents of redheads.