Katherine Reynolds Lewis
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first heard Jun 2018
last heard Jun 2018
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I would love for adults to stop seeing kids who are acting out as bad kids or being difficult or somehow a problem and instead look at it as an opportunity to strengthen that child's skills, whatever this skill at hand may be.
And really it's good when kids misbehave because then it shows us how to help them.
It's this
red flag or signal to us that, oh, attention is needed here.
Absolutely.
So I'm a journalist.
I started off in business journalism, gosh, twenty years ago, and really was very much focused on that until I had children.
And then suddenly all these questions of parenting and education and instilling character and executive function started to be much more interesting to me.
And um
Um around I guess two thousand eight when
The recession really hit and um newspapers were having trouble.
I lost my job along with
the other twenty-four people in my bureau here in Washington, DC area.
So then I went freelance and really was able to write about whatever I wanted uh that I could get someone to pay me for.
So then I started delving much more into education and parenting and trying to understand psychology and what was going on in my kids' brains.
And um through that I just sort of shifted my writing practice more and more to be writing about parenting subjects and child development.
And then in
Twenty fifteen I wrote an article for Mother Jones magazine about school discipline that went viral and that was really such a wonderful launching pad to write much more about child development and delve into the neuroscience of how our brains get wired the way they are, and eventually writing this book, The Good News About Bad Behavior, which came out in April twenty eighteen.
Right.
It's the definition of news you can use when I'm writing about discipline and at three thirty my kids tumble in the door and do something I don't like.
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