Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Helping a 5-Year-Old Night Owl Rest His Wings
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🗓️ 14 December 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: a longtime listener writes in hoping for some bedtime guidance. Their kindergartener is a night owl, and a big reader — but now that sleepless nights are impacting his daytime hours, our listener needs help getting him to sleep.
We also go over our week in triumphs and fails, and then, if you’re sticking around for Slate Plus: cooking recommendations for a listener, and their newly-un-allergic-to-wheat daughter.
Elizabeth recommends: The Complete Cookbooks for Young Chefs from America's Test Kitchen, and No Knead Bread
Jamilah recommends: Kids Cooking
Zak recommends: The best cookie recipe but sub in brown butter. Millionaire’s Shortbread. Homemade noodles. Watch: Junior Bakeoff
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| 0:00.0 | This episode may contain explicit language. |
| 0:02.8 | Welcome to mom and dad are fighting. |
| 0:07.2 | Sla's parenting podcast for Thursday, December 14th, the Little Night Owl |
| 0:12.4 | Edition. I'm Jamil Le Nou, a writer who |
| 0:16.1 | submitted a slate care repeating parenting column and mom to Naima who's 10 and |
| 0:21.6 | we live in Los Angeles. |
| 0:23.0 | I'm Zach Rosen. I host another podcast. |
| 0:25.0 | It's called The Best Advice Show, and I'm Dad to Noah, who's 6, and Ami, who's 3. |
| 0:30.0 | We're in Detroit. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm Elizabeth New Camp. I write family travel blog Dutch Goose and I'm the mom of three little's Henry who's 11 Oliver who's 9 and Teddy who's 7 we live in Tokyo Japan |
| 0:42.1 | Today on the show we have a five-year-old who's having trouble falling this week. |
| 0:46.0 | His parents decided he could read in bed for as long as he wanted. |
| 0:50.0 | Great, right? |
| 0:51.0 | Well, now he won't give up the nightlight. We're also going to catch up our week |
| 0:55.3 | in parenting and then if you're in the Slate Plus Club we're going to share our favorite |
| 0:59.2 | recipes to make with kids. Here's what you'll hear if you have Sleep Plus. |
| 1:04.0 | Shera is the real baker in our family and over the holiday she made |
| 1:08.0 | millionaire shortbread which I also included a link to from |
| 1:11.0 | preppy kitchen.com. Wow it's decadent. |
| 1:14.4 | Oh my God that looks so good. It's so good. Talk about what it is that explain millionaires. |
| 1:23.2 | Oh, millionaire. |
| 1:23.8 | Oh, gosh. |
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