# If Your Parents Weren't Listening to You Properly...

Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-school-of-life-7778042/if-your-parents-weren-t-listening-to-you-properly
Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-school-of-life-7778042/if-your-parents-weren-t-listening-to-you-properly.md
Podcast: [The School of Life](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-school-of-life-7778042)
Published: 2026-07-22T19:30:00+00:00
Episode link: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/VG8106665046.mp3
Audio file: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/VG8106665046.mp3
Processing state: not_requested
JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-school-of-life-7778042/episodes/if-your-parents-weren-t-listening-to-you-properly
Duration seconds: 325

## Resource

There are few more important tasks for parents than to be able to listen properly to their children. It’s on the basis of having been listened to with close sympathy and imagination that a child will later on be able to accept themselves. FURTHER READING You can read more on this and other subjects here: https://bit.ly/39RwTwy “There are few more important tasks for parents than to be able to listen properly to their children, that is, pick up on and give room to, their children’s moods, hatreds and enthusiasms, even when these run contrary to their own inclinations. It’s on the basis of having been listened to with close sympathy and imagination that a child will later on be able to accept themselves, remain in touch with what they feel and find partners who are interested in their core selves…” MORE SCHOOL OF LIFE Watch more films on SELF in our playlist: http://bit.ly/TSOLself SOCIAL MEDIA Feel free to follow us at the links below: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theschooloflifelondon/ X: https://twitter.com/TheSchoolOfLife Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theschooloflifelondon/ CREDITS Produced in collaboration with: Deanca Rensyta Mihardja https://www.behance.net/deancarensa5a9 Title animation produced in collaboration with Vale Productions https://www.valeproductions.co.uk/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

## Actions

- request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-school-of-life-7778042/episodes/if-your-parents-weren-t-listening-to-you-properly/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.
- read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-school-of-life-7778042/if-your-parents-weren-t-listening-to-you-properly.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.

A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed.

## Transcript

Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.