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

6 Jun 2025 · 43 min

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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