Flourishing possibilities: working productively with AI, supported independence on monkey bars, friendship at a sleepover, and shared childcare and cooking. Strained possibilities: feeling excluded from work, anxious overprotection at the playground, being alone with a phone at night, and carrying cooking and childcare alone.

Raising Them Today

with Michael Koh

An interview podcast on
raising children in a changing world.

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A new family together, rendered in layered paper.

As a new dad, I can’t stop wondering…

Are we raising them for yesterday’s world?

So I’m bringing tough questions to different people...

Learning & workScreens & attentionFreedom & resilienceRelationships & communityA good life & valuesParents & family life

Learning & work

  1. If AI can give the answer, what do our children still need to learn?

    Learning scientistAI researcherEducator

  2. What would school look like if we designed it for a child born today?

    School founderTeacherStudent

  3. What should we teach when we don’t know what work will look like?

    EconomistBusiness leaderEducator

Screens & attention

  1. Are we worrying about screen time, or what it’s replacing?

    PsychologistTech designerParent

  2. Does every hour of childhood need to be useful?

    Play researcherEducatorChildren

  3. Would you want your child’s closest confidant to be an AI?

    PsychologistAI researcherTeenager

Freedom & resilience

  1. How do we keep them safe without making their world smaller?

    PsychologistUrban plannerParent

  2. Which risks are worth letting our children take?

    Child psychologistOutdoor educatorTeenager

  3. How do children learn to handle difficulty without facing it alone?

    PsychologistYouth workerParent

Relationships & community

  1. How do we help them find their people, online and off?

    Social psychologistCommunity builderTeenager

  2. What happens when a family has to be its own village?

    SociologistPolicymakerGrandparent

  3. What do children wish adults understood about growing up today?

    ChildrenTeenagersYoung adults

A good life & values

  1. What contributes to and threatens a child’s good life today?

    Happiness researcherPhilosopherSocial worker

  2. What should we hold onto when the world keeps changing?

    HistorianSpiritual teacherParent

  3. What is a good education preparing children for, beyond a job?

    PhilosopherEducatorYoung adult

Parents & family life

  1. Does raising a happy child mean we should live a happy life ourselves?

    PsychologistBuddhist monkParent

  2. Are we working for their future and missing their childhood?

    EconomistFamily therapistParent

  3. How do we know which parenting advice fits this child?

    Child psychologistPediatricianParent

Before the first episode,
a few early conversations.

Hear different perspectives from Impact Week.

An editorial interview scene with Michael and a guest.

Raising Them Today

is not a podcast about predicting the future or helping our children get ahead. It’s about what it means to live a flourishing life, and how we can help children do so, today and tomorrow.

From researchers to children themselves, we’ll bring diverse perspectives, evidence, and personal stories to explore nuance, challenge assumptions, and welcome disagreement.

No right answers. No experts telling you how you should parent.

Michael Koh in a paper-cut portrait.

I’m Michael Koh,

a new dad, AI builder, entrepreneur and coach.

I spent the last decade traveling the world, learning about its people, and exploring what makes a good life. Now I’m bringing that curiosity to fatherhood, and inviting people with very different perspectives to help me think it through.

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