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This week, I am going to shamelessly copy my colleague Nabil Wakim who, in his “Human Heat” newsletter, recently made a list of recommendations for climate-related podcasts. There are a thousand and one podcasts on parenting, and I wanted to share some of my recent listening with you, for your naps, your jogs or your veggie chopping.
1. How Intensive Parenting Eats Our Lives. These are two episodes (numbers 5 and 6) of the Arte Radio podcast “Let’s live happily before the end of the world”, by Delphine Saltel. The journalist describes the madness in which we are more or less immersed today, us parents, between homemade “Nutella” and absolute availability to the child – sometimes to the point of burnout. Above all, it will look for the historical roots of this very current “parenting style”, with well-chosen interlocutors. The second episode, dedicated to positive parentingdescribes very well the dangers, especially for mothers, who lie in a literal or scientistic reading of this educational method.
2. My 14 years. It’s not exactly parenting, but all parents of teenagers will find it something to think about – or scare. The journalist Lucie Mikaelian kept the diary of her 14 years. In this podcast, she talks about her year 2003, in twelve chronological episodes of about 20 minutes. Warning: if you have a 14-year-old daughter, as they say on airplanes, “brace, brace”. Because in the life of young Lucie, sex is more than present. She has an obsession: ” kiss “, “have done it”, lose her virginity with Camille, the one she loves for five months. An interesting retrospective look at the construction of a young woman in a privileged Parisian environment. A comic strip adapted from the podcast, My fourteen years, will be released on April 26 at Gallimard (192 pages, 24 euros).
3. What’s the point of talking to a baby? Since Françoise Dolto, almost everyone knows that you have to talk to the little ones. In this episode of the podcast “L’Inconscient”, on France Inter, psychoanalyst Caroline Eliacheff manages to talk about this subject in a new and in-depth way. First by linking it to history (Frédéric II and his unfortunate experiences with babies) and fiction (The Wild Child, by Francois Truffaut). Then, because we are very far from the automatic advice with ready-made sentences, served in most podcasts on parenting. On the contrary, it reminds us that speaking, if it is to repeat hollow formulas (“I understand your anger”), no use ; that it is necessary to be in a true exchange so that the child can find an adequacy between what he feels and what one says to him; and finally that it is not enough to speak, it is also necessary to know how to listen.
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