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S4, Ep3 How to Fail: Tracey Thorn

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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The Importance of Distance in Parenting

The more you succeeded, the more inevitable distance there was between you and your parents. Do you think it affected how you've been a parent? They were the classic aspirational parents in that their move to the suburbs had been aspirational in the first place. But I do think that ironically, the thing they thought they wanted for me, which was education and getting out there in the world, again, it did turn me into someone who they didn't quite understand or thought they couldn't understand. And my style of parenting is the absolute opposite, really. It's much more open. When there's been difficult things, we've tended to be just much more open about talking about things,.

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