Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Creating Your Perfect Family
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🗓️ 22 May 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Jamilah Lemieux, Zak Rosen and guest host Maribel Quezada Smith advise a couple who have one kid. They thought they were a ‘one and done’ family but they’re feeling the pressure of the biological clock and now don’t know if they should have a second before it’s no longer an option. We also have listeners weigh in on how they approach family composition.
Recommendations:
Zak: Embrace mismatching socks!
Maribel: Laundry bags.
Jamilah: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.—the movie.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Jonathan Braylock, I'm Dra. Milligan, and I'm James III. And we're those of Black |
| 0:09.2 | Pink and Jump in Hollywood. It's a comedic podcast that reviews films with leading actors |
| 0:13.6 | of color and analyze them in the context of race and Hollywood's diversity issues. |
| 0:17.5 | Yeah. Listen to new episodes on Mondays. Find us wherever you get your podcasts. I don't |
| 0:22.6 | care where you get them. I just want you to listen. Don't threaten the people we need |
| 0:26.9 | them to listen. Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. Sorry, guys. Listen. Listen to us. Yeah. Yeah. Put |
| 0:32.0 | on a happy voice. Welcome to Mom and Dad are fighting. Slate's parenting podcasts. |
| 0:45.7 | For Monday, May 22, the two big, two small, just right edition. I'm Jamila Mew, a writer, |
| 0:54.4 | distributor of Slate's care and feeding parents in column and Mom Tanayima, who is 10. We live |
| 0:59.6 | in Los Angeles. I'm Zach Rosen. I make another podcast. It's called The Best Advice Show. |
| 1:05.4 | And I am Dad Tanoa, who's five, and Ami, who's two. We live in Detroit. And I'm Maddie |
| 1:11.0 | Medkasada Smith, a video and podcast producer. I also co-host the course of podcasts. I'm |
| 1:16.0 | a mom to Rencie, who's two, almost three, and we live in Phoenix. Today on the show, we |
| 1:21.6 | are going to be talking about family composition. We have a letter from a listener who thought |
| 1:26.3 | they were content with only one child. But now they're feeling pressure from family |
| 1:30.9 | and friends and the clock to make a decision on if they're going to add more. So we're |
| 1:35.8 | going to give those some advice, and we're also going to talk more broadly about what |
| 1:38.7 | it means to decide when your family is put on quote, complete. We heard from a lot of |
| 1:43.9 | you lovely listeners on how these discussions have gone with your families. So be sure |
| 1:48.0 | to stick around for that wonderful advice. Then we'll wrap up the show with a round of |
| 1:52.1 | recommendations. See you back here in a second. |
| 1:58.5 | This podcast is brought to you by Progressive Insurance. Hey listeners, whether you love |
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