TPP 293: Catherine Newman on How Kids Can Learn Social Skills and Ways to be a Good Human
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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You can now be a queer kid in a rural place where you don't know anybody queer, and you can have an online community that makes you feel as unalone as you've ever felt in your life. And that is absolutely life-saving. There's I can't think of anything more important that the internet could be doing. But they know that the brain chemistry, when you release dopamine, when you release oxytocin, all the reward system is really geared towards in-person relationships.
Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Rieber. Today's episode is all about social skills, but from an updated lens that really speaks to the lived experience of today's kids. My guest is writer and journalist Katherine Newman, and we're going to dive into her new book, What Can I Say? A kid's guide to super useful social skills to help you get along and express yourself. What can I say is aimed at kids ages 10 and up, and it includes practical and accessible advice to help kids and teens learn how to do everything from introduce themselves, express empathy, be persuasive and apologize, to compromise, ask for help, be grateful, and comfort a friend.
In this conversation, Catherine and I talk about why social and interpersonal skills are more important than ever for our kids, despite the fact that their lives are evolving to include more time spent online. We also talk about the climate for social emotional learning and ways parents and educators can reinforce the social skills our kids are learning. And a little bit more about Catherine. In addition to the book we're talking about today, Catherine is the author of the memoirs Catastrophic Happiness and Waiting for Birdie, the middle grade novel One Mixed Up Night, the Kids' Craft Book Stitch Camp, and the how-to book for kids How to Be a Person. She edits the nonprofit kids cooking magazine Chop Chop, writes the etiquette column for Real Simple magazine, and is a regular contributor to the kids.
to the New York Times, O, The Oprah magazine, Parents Magazine, Cup of Joe, and many other publications. Before I get to my conversation with Catherine, I do want to give a quick shout out to Sarah Holzman, Shelly Sullivan, and Martina, three new supporters of the podcast. Thank you so much for joining my Patreon campaign and helping me cover the costs of producing this show. If you get a lot out of this podcast and want to join Sarah, Shelley, and Martina in supporting it, you can sign up at Patreon to make a small monthly contribution. To learn more, visit patreon.com slash tiltparenting. Thanks so much, and now here is my conversation with Katherine. Hey Catherine, welcome to the podcast. Hi, Debbie.
I'm so happy to be here. I'm happy to be having this conversation. And we were just saying we both feel like we know each other, yet, this is our first actual conversation. So I'm really excited just getting to have this chat with you and sharing you with my audience. I'm so excited to get to talk to you. Well, can you start us off by telling us a little bit about yourself from the bio? that I read in the intro, it's clear that you are a multi-passionate person and you do lots of things in lots of different spaces, which I love that really resonated with me. I'd love to just hear in your voice, like kind of a little bit about what you do in the world and and then as part of that, how writing these nonfiction books for kids became part of your body of work.
Okay, well that thank you. That's a great I love multi-passionate. I just wrote that down so that I can have it tattooed onto my wrist because that's such a polite way to describe what I do. I have been a writer. in some ways for my whole life, but I had a long divergent path through grad school. I actually got a PhD in literature in the nineteen nineties and then We had a baby, we were living in a friend's room, a friend's house, one room in a friend's house, my partner and I, with a baby, both of us trying to finish PhDs, and we thought, What are we doing?
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