Merle Bombardieri

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191 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 3 Jul

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It's Been a Minute · To be or not to be a parent · 3 Jul 2026 podcast

But for people who choose to be parents, it's really a great invitation to creative thinking.

Well, what if we had a child?

How would I play tennis?

How would I write my novel?

How can we have great couple time?

et cetera.

So very, very rich things come out of that.

The idea of Swedish Family Hotel is some parents in Europe have wonderful opportunities to raise their kids without doing it all alone.

They might live in a community where their child can walk to school, where the daycare center is next door, where they have their separate family apartments, but there's a big common room where people share meals and there's a lot of parental leave.

And so in this kind of setup, you're not driving kids 10 miles

to get to daycare.

So whatever direction we can go in for us all to raise kids together will make it a lot easier.

Well, you read about how it's set up.

And if you are 100% child-free, you would say, even with that, I would still not want to have a child.

And that exercise really helps me realize I don't want to be a parent.

Whereas other people will say, wow, if I could do this, I would definitely have a child, maybe two children.

And so it raises their awareness.

Maybe they really have decided to be a parent, but they need to decide, is parenthood possible for me and for us with these circumstances?

I'm scared, too.

You know, I'm used to being the professional who can sort of help people deal with their emotions.

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