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Childhood, Interrupted

Raising Kids During a Pandemic

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Childhood, Interrupted

By: Sanjay Gupta MD
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In this evocative, personal piece, Dr. Sanjay Gupta reflects on his life as a parent during this unprecedented time. He shares his fears and questions about raising his three young daughters amid our current public health crisis - and gives listeners a candid glimpse into how he’s navigating the pandemic at home. The neurosurgeon and CNN chief medical correspondent helps parents think about this time from the perspective he knows best: the workings of the brain. Equal parts essay, advice, and reassurance, Gupta reminds us that despite the relentless challenges of growing up during a pandemic, the kids will be all right.

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"I remember the very beginning."
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"I love being a dad."
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"Kids today have been growing up in a very different world."
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  • "I remember the very beginning."
  • Childhood, Interrupted
  • "I love being a dad."
  • Childhood, Interrupted
  • "Kids today have been growing up in a very different world."

About the Creator and Performer

Dr. Sanjay Gupta is the multiple Emmy-award winning chief medical correspondent for CNN. Gupta, a practicing neurosurgeon, plays an integral role in CNN's reporting on health and medical news for all of CNN's shows domestically and internationally, and regularly contributes to CNN.com. Since 2001, Gupta has covered some of the most important health stories in the United States and around the world. Over the last few years, Gupta has increasingly focused on long-form reporting. He is the host of the CNN Original Series Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, which follows Gupta's travels around the world in search of the secret to living longer, healthier and happier. Gupta also stars in the HBO Original Documentary One Nation Under Stress, which examines why life expectancy is declining in the United States.
He is the author of three New York Times best-selling books, Chasing Life (2007), Cheating Death (2009), and Monday Mornings (2012). His fourth book, Keep Sharp: Building a Better Brain, will be published in 2021. Gupta received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and a Doctorate of Medicine degree from the University of Michigan Medical School.

Personal Parenting Insights • Practical Advice • Soothing Voice • Calming Narration • Hopeful Perspective
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Although Dr. Gupta does have some advice here, he offers very few actual answers. Ever the scientist, his answer to our most common questions is 'we don't know.'

What he does provide is commiseration, compassion, and hope. The pandemic is obviously not a good thing, but we can find good in it. Stress, isolation, and uncertainty is higher (for kids and for ourselves) but we also have the opportunity to spend far more time with those closest to us. Until things return to normal, whatever that might come to mean, we have an unprecedented amount of time with family.

Who knows... maybe we'll grow up to be the first generation of old people ever to not say: I wish I'd spent less time at work and more time with my kids.

More empathy than answers

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Relevant, quick, and easy read about Dr. Gupta's perspectives on how to best guide our children's lives during the pandemic.

Recommend

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Good reminders of hope, of thinking outside of ourselves and the glum moment in the present.

Good reminders

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It does give some insight and advice on raising a child in a pandemic. He does a good job narrating it.

Nice little information

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I needed to know I was doing something right for my children mentally. I can relate to this and the content.

Thank you, Doctor.

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This will not give earth shattering insights, but Dr Gupta does a good job of describing the confusion most parents feel in trying to help our kids. He offers some good insights about structure, how kids “mirror” us (a valuable concept), about human touch and so on. Common sense advice and easy to listen to.

The narrative does not address kids in crisis—those whose parents are unemployed or fearing eviction, etc. It’s got an upper middle-class feel to it, but the underlying ideas are of value.

Some good thoughts about kids and the pandemic

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listening to this was not only informational but it gave me personally a little bit of hope challenged my thinking and offered strategies and tools on the whole mask wearing, non verbal cues, as well as a new routine/structure so at least there is some kind of consistency and family time

very informative

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This was a very good book to listen to. It was very neat to hear a neurosurgeon’s explanation of what our children are going through now and what they may experience later on in life.

Mind opening!

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The approach and way of thinking that this short but impactful story delivers showed up exactly when it needed to.

So needed during this time...

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I thought this was a good book for parents with neurotypical children and how they may create resilience through the pandemic. I have two kids with Autism and a Type 1 diabetic and they process information differently.

Overall, thought provoking.

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