EPISODE 5 OF AANYA’S “THE INSIDE SCOOP”: the world’s only kid-run advice podcast for kids.
Dear Reader,
When you’re a kid, even a really smart, “advanced” kid, you’re basically defenseless against the warped, psycho, indecipherable, nutty, clichéd, reckless and indefensible advice you’re likely to get from adults. Like, “Don’t worry, one day you’ll understand.” Which is so helpful! Adults say to kids the kind of things Einstein might say to a chimpanzee. The chimp nods eagerly but has no clue what he’s been told. He just wants a banana.
When I was a kid, lots of times I just wanted a banana, not the whole recipe of how to grow a banana tree, the history and economics of banana importation, what beneficial and essential minerals bananas contain, and the ubiquitous jokes on TV and cartoons about slipping on a banana peel (what kid ever really slipped on a banana peel?) My dad was the champion of saying indecipherable, contradictory, nutty things to us kids. If you asked him a question, like, is middle school going to be harder than elementary school, he’d pull out a graph with statistical analyses and differential equations adding up to who knows, maybe yes, maybe no. Which was not helpful. But then I’d ask my sister, who was just two years older. She would usually know.
So Aanya’s advice podcast for kids, “The Inside Scoop,” struck a chord with me, and when she suggested I do a brief guest appearance, well, of course I eagerly agreed. Check it out!
I checked out your advice to the kids show and thought it was very good! You gave a process to it with the understanding that making oneself visible in a new community builds familiarity and that is the most important thing to know when trying to make news friends for kids or even us oldies.