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
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So needed
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In the era of a million instagram influencers telling us we’re all doing it wrong and the kids are broken, this is such a breath of fresh air.
Joe Rogan of parenting podcast
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A longtime Emily Oster fan, I was excited for this series— but have been so disappointed by the lack of expertise and review of data in the episodes. Emily features well-known writers & gurus instead of subject matter experts, and the result is a confusing menu of opinions without a broader context to help the listener make their own conclusions. I was disappointed that her first episode did so little to explore what is going on with kids & mental health, and made a leap between worsening mental health and over parenting without really showing how she came to that conclusion. In the episode on children and food, notably absent were voices - which Emily has engaged with before, like Virginia Sole Smith! - from an anti-diet, HAES viewpoint. The “overmedicating” episode left me feeling the most upset: of the three ADHD “experts” interviewed, two held fringe viewpoints [one stated that ADHD is a “stress response” (no ma’am!); one said ADHD is over diagnosed related to societal issues (which-ok- but he also co-authored a book titled “The Myth of Autism” indicating he just doesn’t believe in neurodivergence?!)]. Sadly this episode did not discuss the harms caused by lack of diagnosis and untreated ADHD- which include underachievement, un/underemployment, interpersonal difficulties, substance abuse, depression and anxiety. I could go on more!! I wonder if in a quest to be interesting, controversial, and feature popular voices, Dr. Oster has moved away from her data-driven roots into the realm of parenting influencer.
If clickbait was a podcast
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Was excited to listen to this because I follow Emily Oster, but it’s giving me the weirdest vibes and I’m unsubscribing. In an effort to hear from “all sides” randos are placed on equal footing with experts. It feels sinisterly designed to push parents to be more conservative.
Love Emily Oster
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ETA: Also, for everyone so excited she has a podcast…she has for a while! It’s called ParentData with Emily Oster, check it out, it’s great! Emily has been a voice of sanity, not just when it comes to pregnancy and parenting, but school closures as well… any place data can offer reassurance and nuance. She keeps her cool in the face of cultural heat and stands by the facts.
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