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Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

Are These Books Age-Appropriate? Edition

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

Slate Audio

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode: Elizabeth and Dan answer a letter from a mother who worries that her 8-year-old daughter may be reading books that aren’t age-appropriate. Then, they share some tips with a listener who wonders if potty training right before vacation is a good idea.  In Slate Plus: The super-moms set to compete in the Tokyo Olympics. Thanks to Goodnight World for their support.  Recommendations: Elizabeth recommends GLOPLAY, a glow-in-the-dark sticker company for your kids, or for you!  Dan recommends reading any book by Patrick deWitt. Join us on Facebook and email us at momanddad@slate.com to ask us new questions, tell us what you thought of today’s show, and give us ideas about what we should talk about in future episodes.  Podcast produced by Morgan Flannery.  Hosts  Elizabeth Newcamp is a co-host of Mom and Dad Are Fighting. She's a traveling mother of three boys who chronicles her misadventures at Dutch, Dutch, Goose. Dan Kois is an editor and writer at Slate. He’s the author of How to Be a Family and the co-author of The World Only Spins Forward. Jamilah Lemieux is a writer, cultural critic, and communications strategist based in Brooklyn, New York. Social @JamilahLemieux on Twitter https://twitter.com/JamilahLemieux @dankois on Twitter https://twitter.com/DanKois @dutchdutchgoose on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/dutchdutchgoose/ Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on MADAF each week, and no ads. Sign up now at slate.com/momanddadplus to listen and support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Just to give you a heads up, one of us is bound to say something not suitable for little ears.

0:31.0

It is, after all, the one hour a day I spend away from my children.

0:34.0

Welcome to Mom & Dad Our Fighting Slates Parenting Podcast for Thursday, July 22.

0:42.0

The Arties, Books, Age, Appropriate, Edition.

0:46.0

I'm Elizabeth Newcamp, I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch Goose.

0:50.0

I'm the mom to three littles, Henry, who's nine, Oliver, who's seven, and Teddy, who's four.

0:55.0

And we live in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

0:58.0

I'm Dan Coyce, I'm a writer at Slate, and you author of the book How to Be a Family.

1:01.0

I'm the dad of Lyra, who's 16, and a Harper, who's 13.

1:04.0

And we live Arlington, Virginia.

1:06.0

And unfortunately, Jamila's out today.

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But on this week's show, we have a question from a parent whose eight-year-old daughter is a total bookworm.

1:14.0

But her mom worries if she's reading things that aren't age-appropriate.

1:18.0

Then we have some advice for a parent who is unsure if she should start potty training her two-year-old right before vacation.

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