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Fresh Take: Melinda Wenner Moyer on "Raising Terrific Kids in Terrifying Times"


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How do we raise compassionate and well-adjusted kids when their anxiety is at an all-time high, and so is ours? Melinda Wenner Moyer, author of the new book HELLO CRUEL WORLD, discusses actionable and easy-to-implement steps we can take to prepare our children for the realities of today's complicated world while acknowledging our own uncertainty.

Melinda Wenner Moyer is an award-winning contributing editor at Scientific American, a regular contributor to The New York Times, and a former faculty member at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.

Melinda, Amy, and Margaret discuss:

  • the issues affecting today's kids that parents didn't grow up dealing with, like social media, climate change, and political polarization
  • how to prepare more than you protect, listen more than you lecture, and comfort more than you chide
  • the power of narrating our own actions out loud to our kids
  • socializing both boys and girls about when it's okay to rest
  • Here's where you can find Melinda:

    • www.melindawennermoyer.com
    • @Lindy2350 on X
    • @melindawmoyer on IG
    • @melindawennermoyer on FB
    • Buy HELLO CRUEL WORLD: https://bookshop.org/a/12099/9780593719367
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