Bosslady in Crisis Edition

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

Slate Audio

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode: Elizabeth, Jamilah, and Dan answer a question from a boss who is trying to figure out how her company can support employees who are caring for kids. They also talk with Slate’s Rachelle Hampton about student loan debt. She has some advice for parents sending their kids to college about deciding when and if debt is worth it.

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Recommendations:

Dan recommends pickleball, small tennis or enormous human sized ping pong. But whichever way you look at it, pickleball is a great sports equalizer and a lot of fun.

Jamilah recommends A Kids Book About Divorce by Ashley Simpo.

Elizabeth recommends Rocket to the Moon!: Big Ideas That Changed the World by Don Brown and Junior Ranger NASA badges.

Additional Recommendations:

Debt Nation by Rachelle Hampton.

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Catch Jamilah’s new Slate Live show: The Kids Are Asleep. Catch the next show on Thursday July 23 at 7:00 p.m. PST. Stream it on Slate’s Facebook page or YouTube channel.

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Podcast produced by Rosemary Belson.

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:05.7	Welcome to Mom and Daughter Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcasts for Thursday, July 23rd,
0:10.7	the Boss Lady in Crisis Edition.
0:13.3	I'm Elizabeth Newkamp.
0:14.5	I write the homeschool and family travel blog Dutch Dutch goose.
0:17.3	I'm the mom to three littles, Henry 8, Oliver 6, and Teddy 3. And I'm located in Navar, Florida. I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, contributor to Slate's care and feeding parenting column, hosts of Slates, The Kids Are Asleep, Evening, Chat Show, and Mom to Naima, who is seven, and we live in Los Angeles, California. I'm Dan Coice. I'm a writer for Slate and the author of the book How to Be a Family.
0:41.0	I'm the dad of Harper, who is 12, and Lyra, who's 15, and we live in Arlington, Virginia.
0:47.4	Today on the show, we have a question from a boss who is trying to figure out how her company
0:51.5	can support employees who are caring for kids. And we'll be
0:55.1	talking about student loan debt with Slate's Rachel Hampton. For a special project at Slate,
1:00.3	Rachel spent a year polling hundreds of people about how student debt shaped their lives.
1:04.8	She has some advice for parents sending their kids to college about deciding when and if debt is
1:09.5	worth it. And as always, we have triumphs and
1:11.9	fails and recommendations. Jamila, do you have a triumph or fail for us this week?
1:16.5	This week, I say that I have a triumph. I launched a new show. It went interestingly, but I did it.
1:26.8	It happened.
1:28.4	It was fun.
1:29.2	It was very hot in my house.
1:30.9	My first guest, Roy Wood Jr., was great and had really great, strong internet and mine for some reason.
1:38.8	For the first time ever, and you all were looking at me on Zoom, on Wi-Fi, I was on Ethernet and still managed to look like I had a dial-up disc from 1996 to connect.
1:50.4	We did a test today and it looked totally fine.
1:52.9	So hopefully for this week's episode, which is tonight, Thursday night, at 10 p.m. Eastern, 7 p.m. Pacific.
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