Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Avoiding Activity Overload
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🗓️ 15 June 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: a listener worries that her kids aren’t in enough activities. Jamilah, Zak, and Elizabeth offer some ideas for finding scheduling harmony and picking out activities that the kids really love.
They also go over their week in triumphs and fails. Then, if you’re sticking around for Slate Plus, they talk about Rebecca Onion’s piece on Slate: The Case for Leaving Strangers in Your Family Photos.
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| 0:00.0 | Sometimes it's nothing quite like a muck delivery. |
| 0:03.2 | A big Mac in your bedroom before a big night on the town. |
| 0:06.8 | Snuggling up on the sofa with a box of chicken selects. |
| 0:10.4 | A night of the cooking with a qualsapanoid cheese. |
| 0:13.4 | Being indoors with muck nuggets when it's raining outside. |
| 0:16.7 | On munching fries, just because it's Friday. |
| 0:19.9 | There's nothing quite like a muck delivery. |
| 0:23.4 | Participating restaurants only, serving times in delivery fees apply, |
| 0:26.1 | service charge may apply, see the muck dogs app, |
| 0:28.1 | Uber eats or just eat for more details. |
| 0:31.8 | Welcome to mom and dad are fighting Slates parenting podcasts for Thursday, |
| 0:35.6 | June 15th, the activity overload edition. |
| 0:39.0 | I'm Jamila Mew, a writer, contributor to Slates care, |
| 0:42.5 | beating parenting column and mom to Naima, who is 10 and we live in Los Angeles. |
| 0:47.7 | I'm Zach Rosen. |
| 0:48.6 | I make another podcast. |
| 0:50.1 | It's called The Best Advice Show. |
| 0:51.4 | And I am dad to Noah, who's five and Ami, who's two, we live in Detroit. |
| 0:56.4 | I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. |
| 0:57.3 | I write the homeschool of family travel blog, Dutch Dutch Goose. |
| 1:00.1 | I'm the mom to three littles, |
| 1:01.4 | Henry, who's 11, Oliver, who's nine, and Teddy, who's six. |
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