Jessica Lahey
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877 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2017
last heard Apr 2021
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It's been great.
I mean, you know, I think so there was a lot of hype going into the publication of the book.
I had written this article, like I said, in the Atlantic and that went viral and so there was a lot of
um interest around that being a book.
And so, you know, so there was a high expectations and that was a lot of stress and
When it came out I also prepared myself, you know, I had been a journalist for a while and I'd learned not to read the comments and I'd learned, you know, that not everyone's gonna agree with you and that was fine.
So I was really prepared for a big backlash when gift of failure came out.
And believe me, there are plenty of angles to come at it from and and some of them people have, you know, they see it as
you know, laxadaisical parenting or hands off parenting and and that's not at all what it is.
It's sort of a misinterpretation.
But I I've been stunned by the positive reception.
I mean, it's been incredibly gratifying.
It's been
odd and frightening and wonderful.
But I get emails m almost every day from parents or teachers or kids about, you know, the way the books affected their life.
And that's just insane to me.
Like this thing that I wrote here at the table I'm sitting at right now actually, you know, is out there in the world.
And people are using it and quoting it.
It's really just bizarre to me.
It's real the life of a writer is so weird 'cause you're so secluded and then all of a sudden your words are like being quoted back to you and that's just very, very odd.
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