
Hosted by Tommy & Phillip · EN
Raise 'em Left is a podcast about parenting and raising kids from a leftist perspective in a conservative and neoliberal dominated country. We explore the basic challenges of being a parent, how we try to instill leftist values in our kids, and how we help our kids learn to push back against big cultural forces that try to indoctrinate them with a specific idea of what's normal.

This week we discuss gendered baby clothing and the choices of older children.

This week we discuss how to introduce different genres of games to your kids.

This week we discuss strategies for handling emotions related to gaming, as well as how to monitor, identify, and introduce various content concerns in video games.

This week we discuss the introduction of video games to kids.

This week we discuss how we feel about our kids ever playing football, the risks and dangers of football, and the wider social and cultural impact of football.

This week we discuss the ways in which having a child can exacerbate existing mental health concerns, and create new mental health concerns. We discuss how to handle these changes, and when to seek help.

This episode we talk about the stress of having a child in the hospital, how to prepare for the experience, and the balance of hope and honesty. We also discuss police responses to 911 calls, and the immense value of non-police crisis response.

This week we finalize our three part series on Horseshoe Theory

We continue a discussion on helicopter and latchkey parenting.

This week we discuss Tommy's new parental status, and begin a series of episodes analyzing Latchkey Parenting, Helicopter Parenting, and the political theory of Horseshoes.