It Takes A Village (But We're Doing It Alone)
b'For the last 1.8 million years or so, children were raised village-style. But 2020 has meant a lot of us raising our kids without the usual help of grandparents or schools or caregivers or friends.\\nAs New York Times parenting writer Jessica Grose explains:\\xa0\\n"Throughout basically all of human history, parents have never, ever raised children in isolated nuclear units the way they have been doing for much of 2020, with little to no hands-on family or community support."\\nAnd now we\\u2019re on month nine of no village. And it\\u2019s getting cold. And here come the holidays. Yes, this is as hard as you think it is. \\nThe village doesn\\u2019t just benefit the kids\\u2013 it helps the parents keep going, too. So make your own village, even if you don\\u2019t feel like it. Whatever community you can create right now counts, whether it\'s on Zoom or on social media or on a group text or in your podcast listening, or by posting your #danishbaby photos to our Facebook group, never apologize for what that village looks like.\\xa0\\nHere are links to the research and other writing on this topic that we discuss in this episode:\\xa0\\n\\nJessica Grose for NYT: Parenting Was Never Meant to Be This Isolating\\n\\nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/parenting/childcare-history-family.html\\n\\nSarah Blaffer Hrdy for Natural History Magazine: Meet the Alloparents\\n\\nhttps://www.naturalhistorymag.com/htmlsite/0409/0409_feature.pdf\\n\\nLynn Steger Strong for Time: Women Value Their Group Texts in Normal Times. During the Pandemic They\'ve Become a Lifeline\\n\\nhttps://time.com/5894745/group-texts-women-coronavirus/\\n\\nStephanie Coontz for The New Republic: The Way We Never Were\\n\\nhttps://newrepublic.com/article/132001/way-never\\n\\n\\n\\n* Leave us a rating or review in your favorite podcast app!\\n* Join us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/whatfreshhellcast\\n* Instagram: https://instagram.com/whatfreshhellcast\\n* YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WhatFreshHellPodcast\\n* Pinterest: https://pinterest.com/whatfreshhellcast\\n* Twitter: https://twitter.com/WFHpodcast\\n* questions and feedback: info@whatfreshhellpodcast.com \\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'