Do Not Disturb: The Inside Story
Emily Oster
Emily Oster joins Simona Deifta to talk about modern parenting anxiety, evidence-based decisions, risk, guilt and how parents can make better choices without spiralling.
Episode
The Parenting Advice We've Been Getting Wrong
Simona and Emily discuss why modern parenting can feel overloaded with advice, how to read risk more clearly, where guilt gets confused with good parenting, and why evidence can make family decisions calmer rather than colder.
Themes in this conversation
- Why parenting advice creates so much anxiety
- Evidence-based decision-making for families
- Risk, guilt and the pressure to optimise every choice
- What modern parents are getting wrong
- How to build confidence without chasing certainty
- ParentData, motherhood and the information overload around family life
About Emily Oster
Emily Oster is an economist, Brown University professor, bestselling author and founder of ParentData. Her work helps families use data and evidence to make clearer decisions about pregnancy, parenting and family life.
Core question: What if better parenting does not come from more advice, but from learning how to think clearly about uncertainty?
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