Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Are Toddler Leashes OK?
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🗓️ 6 March 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Elizabeth and Jamilah are joined by Lizzie O’Leary, host of Slate’s What Next: TBD. First up—when (if ever) are toddler leashes OK? Then they discuss In my work I see tragedy daily and think: someone worked so hard to keep this person alive by Ankita Rao. Finally, they end with recommendations.
Lizzie recommends Babybug magazine.
Elizabeth recommends getting ChatGPT to tell bedtime stories.
Jamilah recommends Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to mom and dad are fighting. |
| 0:04.0 | Slate's parenting podcast for Monday, March 6th, |
| 0:07.1 | the to leash or not to leash edition. |
| 0:10.6 | I'm Jamila Liu, a writer, |
| 0:12.4 | contributor to Slate's care and feeding parenting column, |
| 0:15.2 | and mom to Naima, who is just about 10, |
| 0:18.0 | and we live in Los Angeles. |
| 0:19.8 | I'm Elizabeth Newcamp. |
| 0:20.9 | I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch Goose. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm the mom of three little, Henry, who's 10, |
| 0:26.2 | Oliver, who's eight, and Teddy, who's six. |
| 0:28.4 | We live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm Lizzie O'Leary, the host of the Slate podcast, |
| 0:33.2 | what next TVD? |
| 0:34.7 | And I am mom to Sam, who is two and a half, |
| 0:38.2 | and we live in Brooklyn. |
| 0:39.9 | Today on the show, we've got a very interesting question. |
| 0:43.6 | When, if ever, are toddler leashes okay? |
| 0:47.1 | Then we've got a very interesting but heavy conversation |
| 0:50.1 | about a resident piece in the Guardian. |
| 0:52.2 | The article is all about how parenting has changed |
| 0:54.4 | the way the author, and honestly, some of us think |
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