Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Attention-Seeking Toddler Edition
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🗓️ 26 August 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Jamilah, Elizabeth, and Aymann discuss their triumphs and fails for the week. Then they answer a question from a listener whose 4-year-old daughter has developed some attention-seeking behaviors with the arrival of a newborn sibling.
Later, they have some advice for someone whose 6-year-old is struggling to learn table manners. How long will mealtimes be a struggle before the constant and repetitive “chew with your mouth shut and sit at the table” bears fruit?
In Slate Plus: What to do with keepsakes and mementos that cause physical and emotional clutter? The group discusses their strategies for preserving, or tossing, those letters, drawings, and awards that accumulate over childhood.
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Podcast production by Jasmine Ellis and Asha Saluja.
Recommendations
Aymann recommends the subreddit for Dads called Daddit.
Jamilah recommends Shantrelle P. Lewis’ documentary, In Our Mothers’ Gardens on Netflix.
Elizabeth recommends the book American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang.
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.
Jamilah Lemieux is a writer, cultural critic, and communications strategist based in Brooklyn, New York.
Aymann Ismail is an award winning staff writer at Slate whose work focuses on identity and religion.
Social
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@dutchdutchgoose on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/dutchdutchgoose/
@aymanndotcom on Twitter https://twitter.com/aymanndotcom
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting Slate's Parenting Podcasts for Thursday, August 26, the |
| 0:07.7 | attention-seeking toddler edition. I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family |
| 0:12.8 | travel blog, Dutch Dutch, Goose. I'm the mom to three littles, Henry who's nine, Oliver who's |
| 0:17.6 | seven, and Teddy who's four. and we live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
| 0:21.7 | I'm aiming to smile. I'm filling in for Dan Cois. I've got a special guest with me, an attention-seeking toddler. Is he a toddler? I don't know. He's three months old. His name is Musa. No, infant. I think we're still infant here. He's an attention-seeking infant because he knows you're the star. He's the cutest. We're getting to watch him |
| 0:37.9 | have a bottle of milk and come to work with dad. I love it. Yeah, this ends up being ASMR, I'm sorry. |
| 0:43.8 | I'm Jamila Lemieux, writer, contributor to Slate's Karen Feeding Parenting column, and |
| 0:48.7 | mom to Naima, who's an old baby. And we live in Los Angeles, California. On today's show, we're answering a listener question from a parent whose toddler is having a |
| 0:58.5 | hard time adjusting to their new sibling. |
| 1:01.0 | How do you balance giving your child the attention that they need, along with taking care of |
| 1:05.0 | the newest addition in your family? |
| 1:06.9 | Then we give some advice to a listener who's having a hard time getting their kid to practice their table manners. |
| 1:12.4 | What should you do when your child decides to do things their way and not follow the rules when eating dinner? |
| 1:18.0 | And on Slate Plus, we're talking about what to do with your kids' memorabilia. |
| 1:22.1 | Drawings, trophies, birthday cards, school awards, etc. |
| 1:25.9 | As your kids get older and the stuff amasses, what do you do? |
| 1:30.0 | Throw it away. Keep it forever in boxes because they have sentimental value. Join us and you'll find out what we do. |
| 1:36.1 | But first, as usual, we're going to kick off the show with some triumphs and fails. Amen. Do you have a triumph or fail this week for us? |
| 1:43.5 | Yeah, I got I got one that's mostly a triumph, but also a little bit of a fail. |
| 1:50.7 | So one of my closest friends is getting married real soon. |
| 1:54.7 | And this has been a source of anxiety because I wasn't sure what we were going to do. |
| 1:58.6 | And with a Delta variant coming up, we were just so afraid of committing to anything like that. |
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