Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Are These Books Age-Appropriate? Edition
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🗓️ 22 July 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Elizabeth and Dan answer a letter from a mother who worries that her 8-year-old daughter may be reading books that aren’t age-appropriate.
Then, they share some tips with a listener who wonders if potty training right before vacation is a good idea.
In Slate Plus: The super-moms set to compete in the Tokyo Olympics.
Thanks to Goodnight World for their support.
Recommendations:
Elizabeth recommends GLOPLAY, a glow-in-the-dark sticker company for your kids, or for you!
Dan recommends reading any book by Patrick deWitt.
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Podcast produced by Morgan Flannery.
Hosts
Elizabeth Newcamp is a co-host of Mom and Dad Are Fighting. She's a traveling mother of three boys who chronicles her misadventures at Dutch, Dutch, Goose.
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.
Jamilah Lemieux is a writer, cultural critic, and communications strategist based in Brooklyn, New York.
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| 0:00.0 | Just to give you a heads up, one of us is bound to say something not suitable for little ears. |
| 0:04.9 | It is, after all, the one hour a day I spend away from my children. |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday, July 22nd. |
| 0:16.1 | The, are these books age-appropriate edition? |
| 0:19.8 | I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch, goose. I'm the mom to three littles, Henry who's nine, Oliver, who's seven, and Teddy who's four. And we live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I'm Dan Coice. I'm a writer at Slate, and the author of The Book How to Be a Family. I'm the dad of Lyra, who's 16, and Harper, Harper who's 13 and we live in Arlington, Virginia. And unfortunately, Jamil is out today. But on this week's show, we have a question from a parent whose eight-year-old daughter is a total bookworm. But her mom worries if she's reading things that aren't age-appropriate. Then we have some advice for a parent who is unsure if she should start |
| 0:54.6 | potty training her two-year-old right before vacation. On Slate Plus, you get an extra special |
| 1:00.1 | bonus segment about the dozen or so mothers set to compete in this year's Tokyo Olympics. |
| 1:05.1 | We love those super moms. |
| 1:07.4 | Slash, we fear these super moms. Yeah, we're super impressed by them and all their extra hard work. |
| 1:15.6 | But we're going to kick off this show with some triumphs and fails. |
| 1:19.4 | So, Dan, you first. |
| 1:21.5 | My parenting triumph is that I'm in a hotel with Alia in Knoxville, Tennessee, |
| 1:27.3 | and my kids are at camp. |
| 1:28.9 | Woo-hoo! |
| 1:30.8 | That's delightful, but I actually have a real triumph. |
| 1:33.6 | My real triumph is that for the fourth consecutive summer, I lost to Lyra in our annual beach reading contest. |
| 1:43.4 | So each summer, when we go to the beach with with Holly's family, we each bring a pile of books. |
| 1:49.6 | And then we make a big piece of poster board where we draw pictures of each other and |
| 1:54.4 | keep track of how many pages we read, like one of those like charity thermometers. |
| 1:58.9 | How far have you gone over the course of the week? |
| 2:01.4 | And once again, she beat me this year. |
| 2:04.3 | The score was 4,125 pages to 3,547 pages. |
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