Bed, Bath, and Biting Edition

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

Slate Audio

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode: The hosts answers listener questions about what to do when your kid refuses to shower and a kid that refuses to stop biting. We also welcome Jamilah Lemieux as this week’s special host. As usual, we share our triumphs and fails and offer up some recommendations. On Slate Plus, Jamilah shares her co-parenting story. Recommendations: Rebecca recommends using Slack at home for handling parenting tasks. Dan recommends the book, Share Your Smile by Rebecca Telgemeier. Jamilah recommends using TaskRabbit to relieve some parenting chores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Bede and Bats and Biting edition.
0:06.0	Hello and welcome to Mom and Dad are fighting, Slate's Parenting
0:08.6	Podcast for Thursday, June 13th, The Bed Bath and Biting Edition. I'm Dan Coise, I'm an editor and
0:15.5	writer at Slate and I'm the author of the forthcoming book How to Be a Family.
0:18.8	I'm the dad of Lyra, who's 14 at Harper, who's 11.
0:23.0	I'm Rebecca Lervoy. I'm a journalist and podcaster in New Hampshire and I am Mom to Henry who was 17,
0:28.3	Teddy who was 16, and my stepdaughter Lily who just turned 19.
0:33.2	Happy birthday Lily.
0:35.1	And joining us today as a guest host,
0:36.9	we're very excited to have one of Slate's
0:38.9	brand new parenting advice columnist.
0:41.5	Please say hello. Hi, I'm Jamele Lamu.
0:44.0	I am a writer, cultural critic, and communication
0:48.0	strategist currently based in Brooklyn and en route to Los Angeles.
0:52.0	And I am the co-parenting mother of Naima who is six.
0:56.0	Today on the show we've got listener questions about how to get a kid to take a bath and
1:01.4	the case of the biting cousin.
1:03.0	Plus, triumphs and fails and recommendations.
1:06.0	So let's start off with some triumphs or fails.
1:09.0	Rebecca, what do you have today?
1:11.0	A triumph or a fail? I'm in the middle of what is sure Triumph or a Fail.
1:12.8	I'm in the middle of what is sure to be a fail. It's a you can't win no matter what you do situation.
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