Let’s Crew & Riot
Let’s Crew & Riot
Chin Ru
“The Kids Get to Decide”: Love, Parenting and Contradiction with Nicholas Thompson
28 minutes Posted Apr 3, 2026 at 12:00 pm.
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In this episode of Let’s Crew & Riot, I speak with Nicholas Thompson - CEO of The Atlantic and author of The Running Ground. We begin with a line from his book that I couldn't stop thinking about: "A parent has one obligation… unending love. There's no blueprint and there's only one rule. The kids get to decide if the parent meets the standard." From there, we explore the complexity of loving someone who is both formative and, at times, damaging - and what it means to hold contradi...