Sep 2, 2026 · 40 min · 10 segments
How do we raise children who care about the world without letting worry overwhelm their sense of wonder? Author Jennifer Case joins Ashley Arnold to explore how caring for our children connects to…
Jennifer CaseGuest
Ashley ArnoldHost
Jennifer Case is a writer, a teacher, and a mother whose work focuses on place, environment, family, and motherhood.
She grew up along a river in Minnesota, backpacking the Superior hiking trails with her family, and she spent much of her writing life asking what it means to belong.
And her newest book, The Care Work Project, Reckoning with Love, Labor, and the Living World, begins with the idea that care work is climate work.
From there, Jennifer examines this invisible labor that sometimes sustains our kids, our families, our communities, the living world.
and she asks what care could become if it were more fully valued and more equitably shared.
For Raising Wild, this opens up a really interesting question about what our children are learning about care, not simply from what we tell them, but also the way that we teach it, the way they watch us live that care.
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Jennifer Case is a writer, a teacher, and a mother whose work focuses on place, environment, family, and motherhood.
She grew up along a river in Minnesota, backpacking the Superior hiking trails with her family, and she spent much of her writing life asking what it means to belong.
And her newest book, The Care Work Project, Reckoning with Love, Labor, and the Living World, begins with the idea that care work is climate work.
From there, Jennifer examines this invisible labor that sometimes sustains our kids, our families, our communities, the living world.
and she asks what care could become if it were more fully valued and more equitably shared.
For Raising Wild, this opens up a really interesting question about what our children are learning about care, not simply from what we tell them, but also the way that we teach it, the way they watch us live that care.
