Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It is an honor to welcome everyone to the 71st National Book awards. I am Jason Reynolds coming to you live from washington dc go this is overnight but there is so much going on in the world this is our night and it is a big deal. It is so much of a big deal i woke up this morning anxious and nervous as usual. I always, mother and i am anxious. It is 7 00 oclock in the morning and she says oh no i said i am feeling anxious about tonight have to hope the National Book awards am calling you to see if you have advice for your child go she said that she always has been to make the call. Let me ask you something, son. What did i make you say every single night before you got into bed when you were little boy . I said i dont want to do this right now she said no dont know what did i. C. E. Make you say every night when you got into bed . I said you made me say i can do anything. Exactly you can do anything. You tell me this all the time on. But i never asked
Question. Sarah ray is the author of field guide to climate anxiety and fought hard for Environmental Issues during this time and madeline levine, long leading voice in thinking about wellbeing and anxiety in youth today and has new book out ready or not, preparing our kids for a really uncertain future and Christine Carter is a leading voice in science of happiness for children and application of wonderful new book the new adolescence. Thank you for joining me and joining the conversation. This is such an extraordinary time, really, transformative and transcended and, i mean, everybody sees you in your living rooms and i want to take wherever you guys are. [laughter] how is it going for you guys right now during the covid19 pandemic, madeline . For me its not that different because im in my office 90 of the time so and im an introvert so i dont mind being in my office. The thing i learned is i have a lot of stuff in my life that i dont need and thought i needed but i really dont, that