Blake Boles
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817 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2019
last heard Dec 2022
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I think that the fear is real.
It's powerful.
Uh, in the chapter I have about parenting, I describe what sociologists call the phenomenon of intensive parenting, which is this new norm, this new dogma, uh, in which parents are considered to be almost godlike in their powers to shape the destinies of their children, both for better and for worse.
And that puts parents into a very
anxious position.
It's like they have all this responsibility.
And I cite a lot of research in the book saying that is not true.
You don't have as much control as you think.
That's the title of chapter four.
And so I do push back against that anxiety and that fear in one way.
But another way that I like to push back against it is yes, there will always be a risk
uh if you take your kid off the standard educational path.
Not arguing that.
But we have to look at the other risks too.
And I say that there's three good metrics when you're considering whether school works for your kid or not.
And those are engagement, boredom and stress.
Uh if your kid goes to school and they are engaged for most of the day, they're happy to be there, wonderful, great.
If they don't experience that much boredom or it's not a very negative form of boredom, then that's a good thing.
And finally, if they have tolerable levels of stress, if the stress is mostly of the the positive variety, for example, students who sign up for band and they have this
big performance coming up and they're stressed about that, that's a a good form of stress.
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