Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Do We Have to Visit Grandma?
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🗓️ 30 November 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Jamilah, Zak, and Elizabeth help a listener who is conflicted over their vacation plans. Her mother-in-law lives across the country and doesn’t have a super strong bond with her young grandson. They’re wondering if they should spend their precious vacation days visiting grandma or if there’s some kind of compromise.
In Slate Plus, they answer a bonus listener question about unique Christmas and Hanukkah activities that would actually keep older kids engaged.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to mom and dad are fighting, Sla's parenting podcast for Thursday, November 30th, |
| 0:07.0 | the bonding with grandma edition. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Jamil Lemieu, a writer, contributor to Sla's Karen Feeding Parents in Pollum and Mom Tnaema who's 10 and we live in Los Angeles. I'm Zach Rosen. I make another podcast that's called The Best Advice Show and I'm dad to Noah who's six and Ami who's three we live in Detroit |
| 0:26.8 | I'm Elizabeth Newkamp by write the homeschool and family travel blog Dutch Dutch Dutch Guoose I'm the mom of three little is Henry who's 11 |
| 0:33.8 | Oliver who's 9 and Teddy who's 7. We live in Tokyo Japan. On today's show |
| 0:39.5 | we have a question from a listener who's in a travel pendidrome. Do they have to use their vacation |
| 0:44.8 | to visit Grandma who lives across the country? Or would it be terrible if they took their |
| 0:49.2 | four-year-old somewhere else? We're also going to do a round of triumphs and fails. And then, if you're in the Slate Plus Club, |
| 0:56.7 | we're tackling a very practical question. Our letter writer is looking for some new Christmas and Hanukkah activities that will be great to do with |
| 1:03.7 | grandma and will actually keep older elementary school kids interested. Here's what |
| 1:09.0 | you'll hear if you have Slate Plus. I want you to make candles. Go order a rolled beeswax kit. This is perfect no matter what you're celebrating. You can put the candles on, you know, your dinner table. You can use them in the menorah you can like I don't know the winter |
| 1:25.6 | season is all about like lighting things up I would recommend for the little |
| 1:29.5 | ones the rolled beeswax kits. |
| 1:32.7 | Older kids like this too, |
| 1:33.7 | because you can get really decorative cut out stuff, |
| 1:37.0 | push it on there. |
| 1:37.8 | It's super fun, and the kids get to use them. |
| 1:39.8 | It's one of our favorite holiday activities. |
| 1:42.2 | By becoming a Slate Plus member, |
| 1:44.0 | you'll enjoy a weekly bonus segment |
| 1:46.0 | and all your beloved Slate Podcast |
| 1:48.0 | without any advertisements. |
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