Catherine Newman
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312 appearances
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first heard Jun 2022
last heard Jun 2022
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I mean there are so many answers to that question.
You know, one answer is
The pandemic.
I mean, these are evergreen skills anyways.
There have been people talking about this stuff forever.
But in this I used to say post pandemic and now obviously it's evolving pandemic.
I don't know what to say anymore.
Um, in this world where kids have been in and out of their normal social lives over the last couple of years, they've been in school, not in school, over Zoom.
A lot of kids have dug deep into their phones.
They are on social media a lot.
And people talk a lot right now about feeling like their kids are not very fluent in their um social relationships.
I think that's true of a lot of adults too, by the way.
It's just harder to teach adult stuff because adults don't tend to want to be taught anything.
But
kids are open I think to I think if you, you know, present these skills as learnable skills
kids will learn them instead of somehow presuming that these are skills that are in the air kids are breathing, which of course they're not.
And then the other thing I say, so besides the pandemic, besides that you and I are speaking
Soon after horrific Texas school shooting.
where we are just thinking all the time about what is missing from everybody's life besides gun control laws.
And then if you think of this
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