Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Avoiding Activity Overload
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2023
⏱️ 23 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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| 0:31.6 | Welcome to Mom & Dadr Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast. For Thursday, June 15th, |
| 0:36.6 | the Activity Overload Edition. I'm Jimmy Lil' Mew, a writer, contributor to Slate's |
| 0:42.0 | Care and Beating Parenting column and Mom Tanayima, who is 10 and we live in Los Angeles. |
| 0:47.6 | I'm Zach Rosen, I make another podcast. It's called The Best Advice Show and I am |
| 0:51.7 | Dad Tanowa, who's 5 and Ami, who's 2. We live in Detroit. I'm Elizabeth Newcamps, I write |
| 0:57.4 | the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch Goose, and the mom to 3 little ones, |
| 1:01.2 | Henry, who's 11, Oliver, who's 9 and Teddy, who's 6. We live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
| 1:06.6 | Today on the show, our letter writer is feeling the pressure of juggling weekend and after school |
| 1:11.1 | activities. They fear they're doing it all wrong, as they try to balance their family priorities |
| 1:16.3 | and say no to things like birthday parties, play dates and sports. We're also going to touch |
| 1:20.8 | based on our week in parenting and if you're sticking around with Slate Plus, we're going to be |
| 1:24.7 | talking about a wild new tool for editing family photos. Here's what you'll hear if you have Slate Plus. |
| 1:31.2 | And are you erasing people because of privacy issues? No, I mean, I'm erasing them because it |
| 1:35.2 | looks better on the blog. Like, nobody wants to click on the blog photo where I mean, I do feature |
| 1:41.6 | some, right? Because I like to tell people like, this place was crazy crowded. Like, do not expect |
| 1:47.2 | this photo, but like my header photo, if somebody, if I got all of us smiling in somebody's faces |
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