Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Bad Friends Edition
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🗓️ 12 August 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: It’s Dan’s last show before book leave! Jamilah, Elizabeth, and Dan discuss their triumphs and fails for the week. Then they answer a question from a listener who is wondering how she should help her son navigate a friendship that’s not so friendly. Later, they have some advice for a mother who would like to avoid talking about her daughter right in front of her, but that’s hard to do when you’re a single parent.
In Slate Plus: Summer jobs, entrepreneurial kids, and Dan’s crushing camp counselor file secrets are revealed!
Recommendations:
Jamilah recommends the graphic novel Twins by Varian Johnson & Shannon Wright.
Elizabeth recommends you pack your kids lunches using the PackIt Freezable Classic Lunchbox, the Yumbox and Bee's Wrap!
Dan recommends watching Netflix’s teen show Never Have I Ever with your older kids.
Join us on Facebook and email us at momanddad@slate.com to ask us new questions, tell us what you thought of today’s show, and give us ideas about what we should talk about in future episodes.
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.
Jamilah Lemieux is a writer, cultural critic, and communications strategist based in Brooklyn, New York.
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.
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Transcript
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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. |
| 0:10.6 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday, August 12th, the |
| 0:15.8 | Bad Friends Edition. |
| 0:17.8 | I'm Elizabeth New Camp. |
| 0:19.1 | I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch, Dutch, |
| 0:21.6 | Goose. I'm the mom to three littles, Henry, who's nine, Oliver, who's seven, and Teddy, |
| 0:26.4 | who's Fantastic Four. And we live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, |
| 0:33.1 | contributors to Slate's Karen Feeding Parenting column, and Mom to Naima, who is eight, and we live in Los Angeles, California. |
| 0:40.1 | I'm Dan Coice. I'm a writer for Slate. I'm the author of the book How to Be a Family. I'm the dad of Lyra, |
| 0:45.0 | who's 16, and Harper, who's about to turn 14, just days away. And we live in Arlington, Virginia. |
| 0:52.3 | On today's show, we're answering a listener question from a parent who's concerned that one of her son's closest friends is actually a bad friend. |
| 1:00.7 | What can she do to protect her son? |
| 1:02.8 | Then we have some advice for a listener who would like to avoid talking about her daughter in front of her daughter, but that's tough when you're a single parent. |
| 1:10.6 | On Slate Plus, we're celebrating the hot employment market by talking about summer jobs. |
| 1:15.8 | What summer job did we have and what are we hoping our kids do? |
| 1:19.9 | But first, as always, we're going to kick off the show with some triumphs and fails. |
| 1:24.3 | Dan, this is your last show with us for a while. |
| 1:27.3 | So tell us about that and then go first |
| 1:29.3 | with your triumph of fail. Yeah. So I'm headed away on book leave for the next six months. I'll be |
| 1:34.2 | writing, I'll be working on a book. I'll be back to Slate in February. During leave, I'll be |
| 1:38.8 | working on a novel that is supposed to be published in January 2023. Don't worry. |
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