What If We Cared About Care? with Elissa Strauss

What if we considered care to be a sacred practice? What if the everyday tasks of parenting were backtracked by the dramatic score of the British Baking Show?

Elissa Strauss

, author of When You Care: Unexpected Magic of Caring for Others joins Sarah and Miranda to mull over what it would mean to value care as a society and in our personal lives. We talk about trusting others with your children, why it’s so fraught to admit you like being a parent, alloparents, the Hero’s Journey, and kids singing Lean on Me. Plus, Elissa gives us some free couples therapy!

Links

• Elissa’s Book, When You Care: The Unexpected Magic of Caring for Others

• Elissa Strauss
  ’s Substack, Made with Care

• Elissa’s Slate Piece: It’s a Weird Time to Be a Happy Mom

• Economist Nancy Folbre

• A Thousand and One Movie

• The Care Justice Movement

• Alloparenting 

• Rosalynn Carter

• Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

Culture Recs

• Young Sheldon

• The Golden Spoon