Birthday Parties and Birthday Suits

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

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Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode, Rebecca. Jamilah and Dan answer listener questions from a a mom disagreeing with a father about their young boys showering with her and a mom who thinks her child’s unsupportive father shouldn’t be invited to a birthday party. As usual, we share our triumphs and fails and offer up some recommendations. For Slate Plus, Jamilah talks about parental separation anxiety. Sign up for Slate Plus here. Recommendations: Rebecca recommends the nonfiction podcast, Passenger List. Jamilah recommends Whoopi Goldberg’s kid’s series, Sugar Plum Ballerinas. Dan recommends two plays: Mike Birbiglia’s The New One on Broadway and Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Fairview. Join us on Facebook and email us at momanddad@slate.com to tell us what you thought of today’s show and give us ideas for what we should talk about in future episodes. Got questions that you’d like us to answer? Call and leave us a message at 424-255-7833. Podcast produced by Jess Jupiter. Hosts Rebecca Lavoie, Jamilah Lemieux and Dan Kois Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Spark your creativity with the Sims. Sometimes you might feel like you're not creative
0:06.7	and you have to go in search of your creative spark again. Maybe this is catching up with
0:11.3	creative friends, experimenting with a new look or trying out a new recipe.
0:15.7	And thanks to The Sims, inspiration is just one game and one spark away.
0:21.1	Ready to spark something? Download the Sims 4 and play for free.
0:27.0	The following podcast contains explicit language. Hello and welcome to mom and dad are fighting.
0:35.0	Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, October 4th, The Birthday Parties and Birthday Suits
0:41.1	Edition. I'm Dan Koes, I'm a writer and editor at
0:44.0	at Slate. I'm the author of How to Be a Family, and I'm the dad to Lyra, who's 14, and
0:49.2	Harper, who's 12.
0:50.6	Hi, I'm Jamil Lemieux, a writer,
0:53.2	and Mother To Naima, who is six
0:55.6	and a resident of Inglewood, California.
0:57.9	Like, for real, for real, a resident of California.
1:01.5	Congratulations. I'm Rebecca Lervoy. I'm a journalist and podcaster in New Hampshire and I am mom to Henry who is 18
1:08.0	Teddy who is 16 and a half and my stepdaughter Lily who is 19.
1:12.0	Today on the show we've got a question from a mom
1:15.0	wondering if her kids are too old to shower with her
1:18.0	and another mom whose ex is not going to pay for the birthday parties. Plus, Triumph and Fales,
1:24.8	Recommendations, and really just a shit ton of announcements. First, we got some
1:29.0	Triumph and Fales. Rebecca, you want to kick us off? Sure, I have a triumph that I will attribute to past me because I cannot take credit for today,
1:38.5	but I can give myself credit for it a year ago.
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