Candy Cane Lane

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

Slate Audio

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode: Dan and Jamilah are joined by guest host Michelle Herman, novelist, professor, and Care and Feeding columnist. They answer listener questions from a parent looking for ways to make Christmas enjoyable and a mother who is feeling left out of mother-child bonding experiences. For Slate Plus, Dan tells Lyra’s favorite new joke. (It’s awful.) Sign up for Slate Plus here.

Recommendations:

Michelle recommends asking your kids for advice. And not just tech advice!

Jamilah recommends How to Be a Family: The Year I Dragged My Kids Around the World to Find a New Way to Be Together by Dan Kois. Perhaps you’ve heard of it?

Dan recommends “Hush,” a Season 3 episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

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 Rosemary Belson.

Hosts

Jamilah Lemieux is a writer, cultural critic, and communications strategist based in California.

Dan Kois is an editor and writer at Slate. He’s the author of How to Be a Family and the co-author of The World Only Spins Forward.

Michelle Herman is a novelist and essayist in Columbus, Ohio. Her books include The Middle of Everything: Memoirs of Motherhood and an advice book for children, A Girl's Guide to Life.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:05.8	Hello and welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, December 11th, the Candy Cane Lane Edition.
0:12.9	I'm Dan Coice. I'm a writer and editor at Slate and the author of How to Be a Family, and I'm the dad of Lyra, who's 14, and Harper, who's 12, and we live in Arlington, Virginia.
0:22.3	Hi, I'm Jamila Lemieux.
0:23.9	I'm a writer, cultural critic, and contributor to Slate's weekly care and feeding parenting column.
0:30.3	And mom to Naima, who's six, and we live in Los Angeles, California.
0:34.7	Hi, I'm Michelle Herman.
0:36.1	I'm a novelist and essayist and a contributor to Slate's
0:39.2	Care and Feeding Parenting column. Also a college professor and I am a mother to Grace, age
0:46.2	26 and I live in Columbus, Ohio. Hello, Michelle, and thank you for joining us as our special guest
0:51.7	host this week. I'm thrilled to be here. We have a lot of care and feeding energy on this podcast today.
0:57.9	So today on the show, we've got a question from a parent struggling to get into the holiday spirit
1:02.3	and a question from a mom who is really wishing that her mother-in-law would stay in her own lane.
1:09.1	Is it okay to be left out of traditional mother-child bonding moments?
1:12.4	And how do you address it without feelings getting hurt? Plus, as always, we have triumphs and
1:16.5	fails and recommendations. So let's start with triumphs and fails. Jamila, what do you have for us
1:21.6	today? A triumph or a fail? You guys, it's about to get darken here. This is perhaps.
1:28.7	Maybe this is my last show.
1:30.2	This fail is so bad.
1:31.5	This could be the end of mom and dad are fighting.
1:33.8	This is bad.
1:34.8	Well, I'm excited to bring it to a close in this very dark way.
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