Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Bluey Knows Best
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🗓️ 29 August 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Zak, Jamilah, and Elizabeth are joined by Phillip Maciak, TV editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books and teacher at Washington University in St. Louis. Phillip explains why Bluey, a kids show centered around a family of dogs in Australia, is the best depiction of parenthood on TV.
Recommendations:
Phillip recommends reading newspaper comics with kids.
Elizabeth recommends the games Stack the States and Globle.
Jamilah recommends Cheers Hydrate.
Zak recommends Joe Reilly’s music.
Check out Phillip’s original piece for Slate: Why TV’s Best Kids Show Is Also Its Best Show About Parents
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| 1:05.0 | Welcome to Mom and Dad Art Fighting. Slates Parenting Podcast from Monday, August 29th. |
| 1:10.0 | The Blueno's Best Edition. I'm Zach Rosen. I make the best advice show podcast and the |
| 1:15.0 | father to two. Noah is almost five and Ami is almost two. We live in Detroit. |
| 1:21.0 | I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, contributor to Slates Care and Feeding Parenting column. |
| 1:26.0 | I'm Mom Tanayima, who is nine and we live in Los Angeles. |
| 1:30.0 | I'm Elizabeth Newcamp. I write the Home School and Family Travel Blog Dutch Dutch Goose. |
| 1:33.0 | I'm the mom to three littles, Henry, who's ten, Oliver, who's eight, and Teddy, who's five. |
| 1:38.0 | And we live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
| 1:41.0 | Today on the show, we're going to be talking about a kids cartoon that has amassed quite the following |
| 1:45.0 | by kids and parents alike. That's right, we're talking about Blueno and why it's the best |
| 1:50.0 | depiction of parenting in kids TV today. But first, we wanted to jump into the mailbag. |
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