“Stay out of Grown Folks’ Business / Children Should be Seen and Not Heard”

How does decision making happen in your family - do the parents involve and include their children, or are children expected to keep their opinions to themselves? If you’re of a certain generation, you might have been told that children are to be seen and not heard. What impact does that have on a child’s development, if any?

Podcast hosts Kenya Madison and Julia Sanna ask these questions of local school counselor Dr. Raiko Knight and Delray Beach teen Viviane Dimanche, which leads to a conversation about family dynamics and both the limits on and power of youth voice in multi-generational and multi-cultural family dialogue.