"I look at them and they're in a different world. I don't know how to describe it other than, 'I don't know what this is, and I don't know what comes next.'"
Esau McCaulley always knew he wanted to be a father. But he's now working through some unexpected, complicated feelings around being able to give his four children a carefree life. Esau describes how he grew up poor in Alabama and sometimes struggles with relating to his children's comfortable upbringing outside of Chicago. We talk with Esau about this tension: about how to be in your children’s world, when you feel outside of it.
Esau, a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, first wrote about this conflict in a recent essay: "I Grew Up Poor: How Am I Supposed To Raise My Middle Class Kids?"
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15: Growing Together in Grief
14: 'Auntie' Is A Verb
13: Hobbies and Hiding in the Bathroom: How Parents Spend Their Free Time
12: A Listener Asks: I’ve Changed As a Parent. What Do I Do About the Past?
11: More Than A Feeling
10: The Family Secret That Keeps Me Honest With My Children
9: Will I Ever Sleep Again?
8: Learning How To Be A Working Parent – And Not Just A Parent, Who Also Works
7: ‘Welcome To Eighth Grade, People’
6: A Lesson In Not Overthinking It
5: The Case For Parenting In Community
3: Are You Okay?
2: Yasmeen's Bedtime Problem
1: Parenting Changes Us, Whether We Like It or Not
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