Sep 8, 2026 · 19 min · 11 segments
> *Science recently spent decades trying to prove something the Bible said all along: older women are not meant to fade into the background, they're essential. In this episode of Raising Children Who…
Rita HernandezHost
Nobody is an expert in their first year of anything, not motherhood, not marriage, not a career, and not walking with God.
We have this idea in our heads that the woman we admire arrived fully formed, that they always knew what to do.
Every single one of us started out fumbling, guessing, making mistakes, and learning as we went.
The years, the slow accumulation of experience, tried and tested over time, and the teachable heart that keeps learning from those who've gone before us.
We scroll past a hundred fresh voices a day and assume that the newest one must be the wisest.
Wisdom is accumulated through years, through experience, and yes, through a whole lot of failure.
Every hard year, everything you got wrong and had to fix is being turned into something you'll one day be able to hand to somebody coming up behind you.
So let me come back to that research because it's just fascinating and it makes the point better than I can.
Anthropologist Kristen Hawkes and her colleagues began their work back in the 1980s living among the Hatsa people of Tanzania, a people who still live by hunting and gathering much like our ancestors did.
When a mother had a new baby, it was grandmother who kept the older children fed, digging tubers, gathering food, doing the hard work that freed the younger mother to care for her newborn and in time have more children.
Nobody is an expert in their first year of anything, not motherhood, not marriage, not a career, and not walking with God.
We have this idea in our heads that the woman we admire arrived fully formed, that they always knew what to do.
Every single one of us started out fumbling, guessing, making mistakes, and learning as we went.
The years, the slow accumulation of experience, tried and tested over time, and the teachable heart that keeps learning from those who've gone before us.
We scroll past a hundred fresh voices a day and assume that the newest one must be the wisest.
Wisdom is accumulated through years, through experience, and yes, through a whole lot of failure.
Every hard year, everything you got wrong and had to fix is being turned into something you'll one day be able to hand to somebody coming up behind you.
So let me come back to that research because it's just fascinating and it makes the point better than I can.
Anthropologist Kristen Hawkes and her colleagues began their work back in the 1980s living among the Hatsa people of Tanzania, a people who still live by hunting and gathering much like our ancestors did.
When a mother had a new baby, it was grandmother who kept the older children fed, digging tubers, gathering food, doing the hard work that freed the younger mother to care for her newborn and in time have more children.
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