Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - How to Address Death
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Elizabeth and Zak are joined by Slate staff writer, Aymann Ismail. Today they lend advice to a parent who is struggling with the death of a close friend. When it comes to overdoses and suicides is it better to go over the topic with your kids or deal with it more delicately?
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Podcast produced by Kristie Taiwo-Makanjuola, Zak Rosen and Kevin Bendis.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. Just wanted to give you a content warning. The listener question today talks about death and suicide. |
| 0:06.2 | If this show isn't for you, that's totally okay. We'll see you on Thursday. |
| 0:14.2 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting Slate's Parenting Podcasts for Monday, August 15th, the What to Talk About When We Talk About Suicide Edition. |
| 0:22.9 | I'm Elizabeth New Camp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch Goose. |
| 0:26.7 | I'm the mom to three littles, Henry who's 10, Oliver who's 8, and Teddy who's 5. |
| 0:30.6 | We live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm Zach Rosen. I make the best advice show podcast. I have two kids. My oldest Noah is almost five, |
| 0:38.6 | and my youngest Ami is almost two. We live in Detroit. And I'm Aiman Ismaili. My son is just over |
| 0:45.5 | one years old. I do not host a parenting podcast, but my experience includes cleaning, making |
| 0:52.6 | bottles, rocking babies, etc., etc. |
| 0:55.3 | And we live in Newark, New Jersey. |
| 0:57.0 | You're officially now like a... |
| 0:59.0 | Friend of the Pod. |
| 1:00.2 | Beyond Friend of the Pod. |
| 1:02.0 | Frequent contributor to Mom's... |
| 1:04.0 | I think your uncle, or cousin of the pod or something. |
| 1:07.7 | Yeah, I do like that. |
| 1:44.8 | Lying to his nephews. I love that. If mom and dad are fighting, I'm the uncle who's over playing playing station. Mom and dad and uncle are fighting. That's what we're calling it now. You're our uncle. You're back. Well, today's question is actually one of our most asked topics. We're going to be talking about death. Our letter writer just had a friend pass away from a possible overdose or possibly a suicide and wants to know how to address it with her children. But first, we're opening up the mailbag. We got so many comments about one fact in our episode, hygiene is Negotiable. Here are a few of your letters. |
| 1:49.7 | Dear Mom and Dad, I'm just catching up on a few back episodes and had a response to hygiene is not negotiable. I wanted to dwell on the note about tick checks being recommended |
| 1:54.9 | by the camp. A grubby night without a shower is one thing, but tick-borne illness is very serious. An eight- and five-year-old |
| 2:02.6 | are big enough to learn to check their own armpits and genitals and each other's backs and heads. |
| 2:07.8 | It would be great to get the co-parent's eyes on the kiddo's heads, but this is a great age for |
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