Our culture tells parents there's one best way to raise kids: enroll them in a dozen activities, protect them from trauma, and get them into the most expensive college you can. If you can't do that, don't bother.
How is that going? Record rates of anxiety, depression, medication, debts, loneliness and more. In Family Unfriendly, bestselling author and Washington Examiner columnist Timothy P. Carney says it's time to end this failed experiment in overparenting.
He joins the podcast today to explain how we can be the change we want to see in the world — and help our kids avoid the pitfalls of hyperindividualism and careerism. Carney’s criticism of what he calls “workism” and liberal feminism as an implicitly anti-human ideology is the same impulse that inspired me to start this podcast. Much to discuss! Enjoy, share, leave a 5-star review, send me a message, and if you haven’t already, subscribe to Ladies’ Late Rome Journal. Chat soon!
Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be with Tim Carney