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The Good Fight

Emily Oster on What’s Gone Wrong with Modern Parenting

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

News

4.6907 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Yascha Mounk and Emily Oster also talk about what public health authorities fell short during the pandemic. In addition to being a Professor of Economics at Brown University, Emily Oster  is the founder and CEO of ParentData, a data-driven guide to pregnancy, parenting, and beyond. Emily is also a New York Times best-selling author, whose books include Expecting Better, Cribsheet, The Family Firm and The Unexpected.  In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Emily Oster explore how parents can make data-driven decisions, if screen time for kids should be avoided completely, and school closures during COVID. Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: [email protected] Podcast production by Jack Shields and Leonora Barclay. Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google X: @Yascha_Mounk & @JoinPersuasion YouTube: Yascha Mounk, Persuasion LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

On your mast.

0:01.9

Yes, sir.

0:02.8

Baked.

0:03.4

We're back in the nation's favorite tent.

0:05.6

Let's do this.

0:06.7

And it's packed with a fresh batch of famous faces.

0:09.8

As long as it's edible, I'd be happy.

0:12.7

Don't chalk, try in my case.

0:15.1

How can it be?

0:16.0

The great celebrity baker for Stand Up to Cancer on Channel 4.

0:19.5

Stream now.

0:26.6

One of the things that seems to be true of modern parenting is people view every moment of your parenting as an opportunity to ruin your child forever.

0:29.6

Like, if you rush them out the door in the morning, that could be it.

0:32.6

That could be the decision that ruins them for their whole lives, which of course is not true,

0:36.6

but it like imbues every interaction with this kind of like intense sense that it's, it's the be on

0:42.5

end all.

0:43.4

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

0:52.7

One of the things that I've been trying to think through for the last years is how to reconcile my faith in evidence-based research and the importance of facts, in my mistrust in some of the kinds of advice and things you read on social media, with the fact that public health authorities often

1:11.8

get things wrong, but they often give advice, but claims to be evidence-based, but turns out

1:16.9

not necessarily to be that. And some of those questions are particularly important when it comes

1:23.8

to questions around parenting, when it comes to questions like whether or not

1:29.0

you can indulge in that glass of wine in the seventh month of pregnancy.

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