At Home With Elmo Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Dan, Jamilah, and Elizabeth talk to Elmo about his new show, The Not-Too-Late Show, and how life at home is going for him and his family. Parents, if you want to listen to the family-friendly Elmo segment with your kids, zip ahead to 14:30. Autumn Zitani, curriculum producer for Sesame Street and the Not-Too-Late Show, joins the show to talk about what kids will learn from the new show and how this will fit into evening routines. They also answer a listener question from a mom worried her independent yet introverted preschooler is enjoying being home during the pandemic a little too much.
For Slate Plus, Dan discusses using emergency paid leave through the Families First Coronavirus Response Act. Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on MADAF each week, and no ads. Sign up now to listen and support our work.
Recommendations:
Elizabeth recommends signing up for the summer reading program at your local library, since quite a few libraries are running virtual programs.
Jamilah recommends the book Help Your Dragon Deal with Anxiety by Steve Herman.
Dan recommends Netflix Party, as a way to facilitate the quintessential childhood experience of watching TV with your friends.
Emergency paid leave reading and resources mentioned:
https://www.militaryfamily.org
Emergency Paid Leave Helps Some Families, Leaves Others Adrift by Rebecca Gale
Paid Leave Law Tries to Help Millions in Crisis. Many Haven’t Heard of It by Claire Cain Miller and Jim Tankersley
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Podcast produced by Rosemary Belson.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.9 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, May 28th, the At Home with Elmo edition. |
| 0:14.1 | I'm Dan Coice. I'm a writer at Slate. I'm the author of the book How to Be a Family, and I'm the dad to Lyra, who's 15, and Harper, who's 12. Hi, I'm Jamila Lemieux. I'm a writer and contributors to Slate's Care and Feeding Parenting column. And I'm mom to Naima, who is seven, oh, almost six. And we live in Los Angeles, California. I'm Elizabeth New Camp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch Goose. I'm the mom to three boys, Henry 8, Oliver 6, and Teddy 3. And I'm located in Navar, |
| 0:43.5 | Florida. This week, we've got a very special guest for our all ages. Everyone is Fighting Now segment. |
| 0:49.4 | An extremely beloved furry red monster who many of your kids have grown up with. I mean, |
| 0:54.1 | at this point, many parents have grown up with, I mean, at this point, |
| 0:54.5 | many parents have grown up with them too. It is Elmo. We'll talk to Elmo about his new talk show, |
| 0:59.9 | the not too late show, and how life at home is going for him and his family. That'll be our first |
| 1:05.0 | segment today, so parents who would like your kids to listen in, we'll put a timestamp in the show notes. |
| 1:09.9 | We'll also answer a listener |
| 1:11.1 | question from a mom who is worried that her wallflower preschooler is enjoying, staying at home |
| 1:16.9 | just a little too much. As always, we'll have triumphs and fails and recommendations. |
| 1:23.2 | Let's start with triumphs and fails. Hey, Jamila, do you have a triumph for a fail for us |
| 1:26.3 | this week? I have a triumph. |
| 1:29.4 | And I think that Dan and Elizabeth know what my triumph is because I was too. |
| 1:33.1 | Oh, I'm very excited. |
| 1:34.6 | I couldn't wait and I sent them a picture. |
| 1:36.8 | My triumph is that on Friday, I became the owner of a car. |
| 1:42.4 | Yay! |
| 1:42.9 | Yay! |
| 1:43.8 | Yay! |
| 1:45.7 | Not just any car. Not just any car. |
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