Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - How to Make Your House Work For You
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3.8 • 546 Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Elizabeth and Jamilah are joined by KC Davis. KC is author of the book How To Keep House While Drowning, host of the podcast Struggle Care, and is well known for her TikTok content. KC shares how to divorce yourself from any shame and pressure you feel about the state of your house. She breaks down the differences between tidy, organized, and clean. Finally, she explains how to make chores not just equal but equitable.
Recommendations:
Jamilah recommends The Woman King
KC recommends Maintenance Phase
Elizabeth recommends Science Comics
Bonus recommendation: You Don’t Have to Fold Your Laundry by Rebecca Onion.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcasts for Monday, September 26, the struggle care edition. |
| 0:09.2 | I'm Elizabeth New Camp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch Goose. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm the mom of three littles, Henry who's 10, Oliver who's 8, and Teddy who's 5. |
| 0:17.1 | We live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
| 0:19.7 | I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, contributed to Slate's care and feeding parenting column, |
| 0:25.1 | and mom to Naima, who is nine, and we live in Los Angeles. |
| 0:28.8 | And I'm Casey Davis. |
| 0:30.4 | I wrote How to Keep Housewall Drowning, and I run a TikTok channel at the handle Domestic Blisters, |
| 0:36.8 | and I have a two- and a four-year-old. |
| 0:39.1 | You guys, we are so excited to have Casey Davis back with us to chat about her book, |
| 0:43.8 | How to Keep House While Drowning. |
| 0:45.6 | But first, we are diving into our mailbag. |
| 0:48.4 | Last week, Zach shared how his daughter found her art in the trash can, so then he felt |
| 0:53.1 | super guilty and pulled the art out of |
| 0:55.1 | the garbage and is now saving it indefinitely. Thankfully, y'all had a lot of advice. Hello, |
| 1:01.0 | Mom and Dad are Fighting. Something that works well for our family regarding artwork and schoolwork in |
| 1:05.6 | general is that on Fridays, we have a group photography session where we take pictures of everything that was done |
| 1:11.6 | that week in school. |
| 1:12.6 | The pieces that we are interested in saving go into a sheet protector, which is then kept in a binder. |
| 1:18.6 | We use the two-inch binder for our daughter, and it has four years' worth of memories, |
| 1:23.6 | including not only schoolwork but copies of school photos, her yearly sheet of stamps |
| 1:28.7 | that she gets from her grandpa, along with letters to Santa, etc. We've enjoyed very much |
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