Bittersweet
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode, Rebecca, Jamilah and Faith answer listener questions from an aunt struggling to confront her niece’s traumatic experience and a non-parent that wants to be more useful to her friends with kids. As usual, we share our triumphs and fails and offer up some recommendations. For Slate Plus, Jamilah and Faith chat about back to school time. Sign up for Slate Plus here.
Recommendations:
Faith recommends joining a fancy gym.
Jamilah recommends co-working spaces.
Rebecca recommends having your kids use Venmo.
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Podcast produced by Jess Jupiter.
Hosts Rebecca Lavoie, Jamilah Lemieux, and Faith Smith
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.5 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcasts for Thursday, September 5th, the Bitter-Sweet Edition. |
| 0:15.8 | I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, cultural critic, and mother to Naima, who is six, and a brand new |
| 0:22.9 | almost Englewood, California resident. |
| 0:25.8 | I'm Rebecca LaVoy. |
| 0:26.8 | I'm a journalist and podcaster living in New Hampshire, and I am mom to Henry, who is |
| 0:30.8 | 18, my son Teddy, who is 16 and a half, and my stepdaughter Lily, who is 19. |
| 0:36.6 | And I'm Faith Smith, executive producer of Slate Live, living in Virginia. |
| 0:40.3 | I'm the mom of Benjamin, who is six, and from Thank you, who is two. |
| 0:43.8 | Today on the show, we have two very different questions, one regarding a devastating family |
| 0:50.4 | open secret, the other from someone who isn't a a parent but wants very badly to figure out just how she |
| 0:57.5 | can be more helpful to those of her friends who are. |
| 1:00.3 | And on Slate Plus, we're talking about every parent's absolute favorite time of the year |
| 1:06.5 | back to school season. |
| 1:08.8 | If you want to hear that conversation, come on over and join us on Slate Plus |
| 1:13.1 | at slate.com backslash mom and dad plus. As we always do, we're kicking off the show with |
| 1:19.6 | triumphs and fails, looking back at how we've succeeded and how we've completely bombed at parenting |
| 1:25.3 | in the past week. Rebecca, do you have a triumph or a fail? |
| 1:29.2 | Last week, you had a triumph. Thank you for keeping score. I know. I just tend to focus on the positive. |
| 1:36.3 | I have a kid triumph and a me fail, so it's a pairing. Teddy, it's his first year going to school by himself. |
| 1:43.3 | His brother is now at college. So he's been |
| 1:45.7 | getting up every morning so far of the school year and driving himself to school, getting up |
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