Walking and talking in London’s Tottenham Court Road with David Pearl, performance artist, innovation maven and creative confidant to top business figures.
We’d just finished recording a podcast together (released soon) and this was a bit of an experiment….
Across the globe, where money and opportunity collide, childhood is now a race to perfection. With children expected to pile up academic, artistic and athletic achievements, parenting has come to resemble a cross between a competitive sport and product development.
Result: many modern families are stretched to breaking point.
Enter Carl Honoré, the world’s leading advocate of the Slow Movement. His mission: to slow down the pace of family life to make children (and parents) happier, healthier and more successful.
In ABC TV’s Frantic Family Rescue, Carl has four weeks to reboot three high-octane Australian families. It’s a crash course where parents and kids go cold turkey – stepping off the treadmill of rushing, busyness, screen-addiction and constant striving. For a whole month, they are forced to unplug their gadgets, tear up their schedules and do things for the sheer joy of them rather than because they might look good on a CV.
Do the three families heed Carl’s advice and reap the benefits? Or is there no turning back from our frantic lifestyles?
Take a peek behind the scenes of Carl’s new TV show on ABC 1 in Australia.
Here is the synopsis:
Across the globe, where money and opportunity collide, childhood is now a race to perfection. With children expected to pile up academic, artistic and athletic achievements, parenting has come to resemble a cross between a competitive sport and product development.
Result: many modern families are stretched to breaking point.
Enter Carl Honoré, the world’s leading advocate of the Slow Movement. His mission: to slow down the pace of family life to make children (and parents) happier, healthier and more successful.
In ABC TV’s Frantic Family Rescue, Carl has four weeks to reboot three high-octane Australian families. It’s a crash course where parents and kids go cold turkey – stepping off the treadmill of rushing, busyness, screen-addiction and constant striving. For a whole month, they are forced to unplug their gadgets, tear up their schedules and do things for the sheer joy of them rather than because they might look good on a CV.
Do the three families heed Carl’s advice and reap the benefits? Or is there no turning back from our frantic lifestyles?
Talking about the Slow revolution on a chat show. This is the first of two segments. Not surprisingly, the first segment is entitled “Slow on a Chat Show 1.”
This is a one-hour video interview I did with the CBC’s Michael Enright in front of a live audience in Toronto. It was a highlight of my 2013 tour for The Slow Fix. The interview was later boiled down to 30 minutes and broadcast on CBC Radio’s flagship program, Sunday Morning.