Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Acne Flashbacks Edition
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🗓️ 27 May 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Dan and Elizabeth are joined by Doyin Richards, Care & Feeding columnist, bestselling children's author, and founder of the Anti-Racism Fight Club. They counsel a mom who had terrible acne growing up and now is stressing over her son’s breakouts. Then they have a question about a little boy who is obsessed with gender norms and a mom who’s worried she’s obsessing about it too much.
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Recommendations:
Elizabeth recommends the Loóna: calm, relax, and sleep app.
Doyin recommends Anti-Racism Fight Club for Kids.
Dan recommends The Fifth Quarter by Mike Dawson.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is for parents. |
| 0:02.3 | Maybe not for kids. |
| 0:05.7 | Hey, welcome to mom and dad are fighting. |
| 0:07.6 | Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday, May 27th, the Acne Flashbacks Edition. |
| 0:13.1 | I'm Dan Cois. |
| 0:14.4 | I'm a writer at Slate. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm the author of the book How to Be a Family. |
| 0:17.8 | I'm the dad of Lyra, who's 16, and Harper, who's 13, and we live |
| 0:22.0 | in Harlington, Virginia. I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch, Dutch, |
| 0:28.1 | goose. I'm the mom to three littles, Henry, who's nine, Oliver, who's seven, and Teddy, who's |
| 0:33.5 | fabulous four. I'm coming to you from our temporary lodging, which is on the Air Force Academy |
| 0:39.2 | campus, and it's graduation weekend, so there are a number of loud aircraft that will be |
| 0:45.3 | flying over, hopefully not during this taping, but possibly. So, you know, keep your ears |
| 0:50.1 | perked for those. And hi, my name is Deween Richards, and I am an anti-racism facilitator, the founder of the Anti-Racism Fight Club. |
| 1:01.4 | I am an author, keynote speaker, and also I am an advice columnist for Slate, for Care and Feeding. |
| 1:08.6 | So you may have seen some of my writings. |
| 1:10.5 | So I have two little kids, daughter, 10-year-old Emiko, and my seven-year-old daughter, |
| 1:18.0 | Raco, they both have Japanese names. |
| 1:20.0 | My wife is Japanese. |
| 1:21.5 | And I am coming at you from Los Angeles, California, where the wind chills and fall in these 70 degrees today. It's nice. Love it. Welcome, Neween. We're really happy to have you here. Thank you for having me. We are delighted to have another L.A. person just lording their weather, the delightful weather over us. But you could have an earthquake at any second. |
| 1:44.8 | Any second. |
| 1:45.7 | Any second. |
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