Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Bored at School Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2021
⏱️ 44 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 first grader is bored at school. Should her mother have a talk with her daughter’s teacher or wait and see if things change in a few weeks?
Later, they have some advice for a parent whose 11-almost-12-year-old son is campaigning hard for a cell phone. Would a phone serve as a helpful tool or a terrible distraction?
In Slate Plus: We’re getting into the “why’s” of it all! Why? Because it’s the favorite and sometimes very annoying question of many young children. What can parents do to answer their kids' endless “why’s” without losing their cool?
Recommendations:
Elizabeth recommends Wise Owl Hammock & Straps for easy comfort when you’re camping with the family.
Aymann recommends the Self Cleaning LARQ Water Bottle for purifying water for you and your baby on the go.
Jamilah recommends making your own bootleg sangria! Using grand marnier and/or rum, wine (red or white), kids fruit cups, fresh fruit, sugar and orange juice. Cheers!
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.
Aymann Ismail is an award winning staff writer at Slate whose work focuses on identity and religion.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.6 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcasts for Thursday, September 9th, the Board at School Edition. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, contributor to Slate's care and feeding parenting column and mom to Naima, who is eight, and we live in Los Angeles. |
| 0:21.1 | I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. |
| 0:22.1 | I write the homeschool and family travel blog Dutch Dutch goose. |
| 0:25.1 | I'm the mom to three littles, Henry who's nine, Oliver, who's seven, and Teddy who's four. |
| 0:29.8 | And we live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
| 0:32.9 | And I'm Amyne. |
| 0:34.3 | I'm filling in for Dan Cois. |
| 0:35.8 | I'm probably the least qualified person on this show. |
| 0:39.0 | I've only been a dad for two months. His name is Musa. He's with us with us with the show. So if you hear some squeaky |
| 0:43.3 | mention. We're always happy to have you and Musa on the show. Credentials need not apply. |
| 0:51.3 | I'm like, I don't have any parenting blogs yet. Yes. Yes. Right. Yes. On today's show, |
| 0:57.6 | we're going to be answering a listener question from a parent whose six-year-old has become bored |
| 1:02.2 | with school. What can her mom do to get her excited about learning again? Then we have a listener |
| 1:09.1 | who's trying to decide if she should give in to her 11, almost 12-year-old's |
| 1:14.0 | campaign to have a cell phone. Will it be a helpful tool or a terrible distraction? |
| 1:21.0 | Finally, in Slate Plus, we'll be talking about the whys of everything. Why? Because it is the favorite question of one exhausted listener's son. |
| 1:30.9 | It is the favorite question of most of our children. What can we do to answer those curious, |
| 1:36.9 | endless whys? But first, we'll kick off the shows we always do with some triumphs and fails. |
| 1:41.8 | We'll start with you, Elizabeth. Do you have a triumph for fail this week? I have a triumph. So first, a very small personal triumph is that today, Teddy |
| 1:49.4 | started preschool. Whoa. He went right in, and I picked him up at noon right before coming here, |
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