![]() ![]() “His dad isn’t an investment banker and his mom didn’t go to law school,” Jordan says. Perhaps the most fun and revealing moments come when he describes his drawings, such as “The Dude Pyramid: A Guide to Cafeteria Hierarchy” and a tongue-in-cheek satire about a kid on financial aid. Jordan is an artist who makes sense of his experiences only after sketching them in a notebook. He and his parents try to soak in the benefits of that world without losing touch with his neighborhood culture. ![]() The story winds back and forth between Jordan’s school days and his home life, taking listeners along as he explains the dynamics of RAD’s culture and all that attracts and repels a kid confronted by the gifts, inequities and ridiculousness of extreme privilege. “You guys sure wear a lot of pink,” Jordan says on the first day to his new friend, Liam. “New Kid” follows the story of Jordan Banks, a New York City kid-of-color who gets a scholarship to Riverdale Academy Day School, which is called RAD by its mostly white, rich students. In the audio recording of “New Kid,” the graphic novel by Jerry Craft, kids, parents and even grandparents will LOL as they hear themselves in the different characters brought to life by actors including Jesus Del Orden and Robin Miles. So, in advance of this holiday season and in anticipation of hours spent in a car fighting with my kids to remove their headphones, I poked around to find listening options to entice and possibly even delight the whole family (though the kids might never admit it). Gen X-ers!) while horrifying their parents by saying they don’t like Joni Mitchell.Īnd despite this being the golden age of podcasts, there isn’t much that is easy to find that appeals to a family audience. ![]() The adults enjoy a certain type of music while the younger relations don’t, and they prefer watching TikToks anyway (I know, I know: O.K. 12, 2019 in NYT Parenting.įew things make me feel more like a failure as a parent than looking in the rear view mirror while on a long drive with my family and witnessing everyone recede into their own separate experience thanks to mobile devices and earbuds.īut it happens. This story was originally published on Dec. ![]()
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