Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Disaster at the Dentist Edition

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

Slate Audio

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode: Aymann, Elizabeth, and guest-host Amber Smith discuss their triumphs and fails for the week. Then they answer a question from a listener whose child has become deeply afraid of the dentist and other medical procedures. How can she help prevent her daughter’s fears from becoming phobias?

Later, they share some advice on how to politely deter other parents' from making comparisons of your children.

In Slate Plus: Hiding from your kids. Because sometimes, parents just need a break! The tricky part can be in explaining this to your kids.

Recommendations:

Jamilah recommends the incredibly precious book, Ways to Make Sunshine by Renée Watson for your child.

Amber recommends 2Harts24 Baby Bottom Cream to help rescue your baby from diaper rash.

Aymann recommends The Wonder Weeks App to help you keep track of your baby’s major milestones!

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

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.

Amber Smith is Slate’s senior audience development manager and mama to sweet baby Marley.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:05.5	Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcasts for Thursday, September 30th, the Disaster at the Dental Edition.
0:13.5	I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, contributors to Slate's Karen Feeding Parenting column, and Mom to Naima, who is eight.
0:19.8	We live in Los Angeles, california hi i am
0:22.9	am bruce smith i am slates podcast marketer aka senior manager of audience development
0:29.3	really excited to be here guest hosting for elizabeth and i am mom to 14 month old marley and we
0:36.3	live in ph, Pennsylvania.
0:38.8	And I'm Amin Asmaid. I'm a staff writer, I'm Slaid magazine, and I am the dad to a three-month-old named Boussa.
0:45.7	On today's show, we are answering a listener question from a parent whose seven-year-old has become
0:50.4	terrified of COVID swabs and going to the dentist office. How can her mother calm
0:55.8	her child's intense medical fears? Then we give some advice to a listener who wonders how she
1:00.9	should respond to other parents' comparison of her child to their own children. How can she
1:05.9	politely steer the conversation in another direction? On Slate Plus, we're discussing the burning desire to
1:12.0	hide from our kids every now and then because sometimes, often, it's just too much. The tricky
1:18.4	part, however, is explaining this to our kids without hurting their feelings. But first,
1:23.4	we're going to kick off the show, as we always do with Triumphs and Fails. Amber, welcome to the show.
1:28.1	Thank you for being here with us today.
1:30.4	We appreciate you jumping in for Elizabeth.
1:32.8	Do you think that you can kick off Triumphs and Fails for us?
1:36.1	Oh, yes, I can kick off Triumph and Fails.
1:38.4	Okay.
1:39.0	So I have a triumph of triumph.
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