Raising Parents with Emily Oster
Poseidon is the god of the sea, Dionysus of wine and merrymaking, and Emily Oster? She’s the god of parenting. An economics professor at Brown University, Oster has built a massive and loyal audience by providing overwhelmed parents with the information and data they need to make solid and sound parenting decisions in a very confusing world. Her first book, Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong—and What You Really Need to Know, sold over a million copies and was translated into 19 languages, unseating the classic What to Expect When You’re Expecting as a fixture on many pregnant mothers’ bedtime tables. In this new series with The Free Press, Oster tackles the deep, difficult, existential, and often controversial questions facing parents today: Are we too soft on kids these days? How do I raise an independent child in an era of overprotection and helicopter parenting? Why are so many teen girls unhappy and anxious, and how can we make them happy again? Why are boys being left behind? Are kids overdiagnosed? What to do about the phones!? Is marriage important for raising kids? Should you even have kids at all? These questions are more urgent than ever. That’s because, by many measures, kids are worse off today than 30 years ago. They are more anxious than ever. They’re more depressed. They have more diagnoses than ever before. They’re more medicated. More kids are being raised without two parents in the home today. Kids’ reading and math scores haven’t recovered since their decline during the Covid pandemic. Childhood obesity has risen to 19.7 percent. Kids spend on average 7.5 hours in front of a screen for entertainment each day, and the average teen spends around 9 hours a day on their phone. What’s going on with kids today? How worried should we be about our kids? And what should we be doing, as parents, to change course, before it’s too late? How do we raise good people—which starts with raising good, informed parents—in this strange, new world? Over eight episodes, Oster speaks with over 50 of the world’s best parenting experts, journalists, doctors, psychologists, researchers, and more including: Dr. Becky, Jonathan Haidt, Pamela Druckerman, Richard Reeves, Hanna Rosin, Abigail Shrier, Bryan Caplan, Christine Emba, Johann Hari, Sami Timimi, Melissa Kearney, Ross Douthat, and many, many more. Oster brings her trusted voice—with its sobriety, wisdom, and humor—to the most challenging parenting questions of the day. The best way to support this podcast is to become a Free Press subscriber today at TheFP.com/subscribe
Love it
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Hopefully we’re still early enough that you read the reviews! Love the content. Please reverse the sorting of your episodes in Apple Podcasts. Currently, episode one shows up at the top. Every other podcast I’ve ever listened to is sorted by recency, with new episodes dropping at the top of the list. Don’t punish your loyal listeners by making them scroll an ever increasing amount to new content! :)
Interesting perspective
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First time listening. It made me stop and think about another side of things.
Who the *f* is Hal
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I’ve used Emily Oster’s work to inform some areas of my pregnancy and parenting decisions in the past so naturally I was excited to listen to this podcast. Wow. This was a real strange listen. From misrepresenting Dr Becky’s approach to another “expert” talking about the 80s, it seemed like she wasn’t really focusing on data but only on conjecture. Then there was Hal, the kid hitter. What qualifications did he have to give adice on whether or not kids should be spanked? He didn’t seem like he had any other than… conjecture. In fact, he doesn’t! He’s just a pastor with a bunch of kids! Not cool to give this guy a platform to amplify his message when he has absolutely no credentials. We are talking about hitting kids here not giving a reward system! Here’s some conjecture. We shouldn’t hit kids because…. hitting kids is wrong! Where else in society do we use physical punishment in this way? No where. Didn’t really engender a lot of trust in me. So, just as my body told me when I was younger that being spanked wasn’t right, I’m gonna trust my intuition and put this on the shelf.
Feels extreme/right wing
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I started off really excited to listen to this podcast based on what I knew of Emily Oster but around episode 2 started feeling like something was really off with some of the language. By episode 3 I was confident that this felt concerningly anti-progressive and somewhat extreme. There are some good points and discussions in the episodes but it’s really hard to get past the overall tone/what seems to be a right wing platform.
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