814: Parents Are People
Update: 2023-11-12
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Description
What happens when you realize the people in charge don’t have the answers.
- Prologue: Guest Host Chana Joffe-Walt asks her kids when they first encountered adult fallibility. (8 minutes)
- Act One: A middle schooler really wants to trust the adults have her best interests in mind. But some of the most powerful people at her school begin to make that very difficult. (27 minutes)
- Postscript: In Israel and Gaza, children are directly facing the fact that the adults around them cannot protect them. (4 minutes)
- Act Two: Comedian Gary Gulman on a choice his dad made for him when he was seven years old. (11 minutes)
- Act Three: There are many kids who do not gradually discover that grown ups don’t have a handle on everything. These kids already know. Miriam Toews’s novel, “Fight Night,” is about a nine-year-old named Swiv who takes care of her grandma and manages her mom’s mental health struggles. Even simple tasks can become complicated, like taking them both on the bus. (7 minutes)
Transcripts are available at thisamericanlife.org
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I felt Madison's betrayal when in grade 8 my school failed me after my Dad died 3 months earlier. then temhey suggested I quit. I hope Madison was able to recover from this bum steer.