Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Bickering Grandparents Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Dan and Jamilah are joined by Slate’s Allison Benedikt. They debate if a letter writer’s bickering parents need to knock it off or if it’s okay to squabble in front of the grandkids.
Then, they sit down with Dr. Tova Walsh, professor of social work at the University of Wisconsin, to discuss her new research about how moms who gave birth in March 2020 are coping with a very strange first year of parenting.
In Slate Plus: What to do about kids' expensive—but oh so delicious—berry habits. 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.
Recommendations:
Jamilah recommends Gonanas Banana Bread Mix from Nordstrom Rack.
Allison recommends Everything Sad Is Untrue: (a true story) by Daniel Nayeri.
Dan recommends I Was Told There Would Be Mom Friends by Lauren Bans
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| 0:00.0 | Mom and Dad are Fighting is for grownups. |
| 0:02.5 | Maybe not for little kids. |
| 0:06.1 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, May 6th, the Bickering Grandparents Edition. |
| 0:13.1 | I'm Dan Cois. |
| 0:14.1 | I'm a writer at Slate. |
| 0:15.2 | I'm the author of The Buck How to Be a Family. |
| 0:16.9 | I'm the dad of Lyra who's 16 and Harper who's 13. |
| 0:21.3 | And we live in Harlington, Virginia. |
| 0:22.9 | I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, contributor to Slate's Karen Feeding Parenting column, and |
| 0:28.0 | mom to Naima, who is, oh my God, I was going to say six, then seven, but no, she's eight, |
| 0:33.4 | and we live in Los Angeles, California. |
| 0:35.7 | And I'm Allison Benedict, an editor at Slate and mom of Harry, who is 12, Sam, who is 10, and Wally, who is 8, and we live in Maplewood, New Jersey. |
| 0:45.9 | The boys are back in town, boys are back in town. |
| 0:50.0 | Welcome back, Allison. We're so happy to have you here. |
| 0:51.8 | Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 1:11.5 | On today's show, we've got a letter from a mom who has just had it with her parents bickering with each other in front of the kids, and now her son has had it too. Can our letter writer broker a truce before it's too late? Then we're joined by Dr. Tova Walsh of the University of Wisconsin to talk about her research into new pandemic moms. |
| 1:16.5 | How have moms who had babies a year ago coped with a very, very weird first year? |
| 1:20.3 | Dr. Walsh just completed a study of 30 moms who had babies in March 2020, |
| 1:23.4 | and she knows whereof she speaks because she's a new mom too. |
| 1:26.2 | On Slate Plus, we're talking about berries. |
| 1:29.0 | Berries! Why are they the only food our children eat why are they so expensive what the hell but first triumphs and fails alison what do you have |
| 1:34.4 | for us on your return to the show so my kids all finally went back to school this week first time |
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