Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - How to Not Spoil Your Kid
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🗓️ 18 December 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: the best way to show a solo parent you’re here for them—even if you live far away. Jamilah Lemieux, Elizabeth Newcamp, and Zak Rosen also debate what to do if your kid is constantly coming home from school with gifts. Then they discuss How To ‘Un-Spoil’ Your Kid, According To Parenting Experts by Kelsey Borresen.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast from Monday, December 18, |
| 0:07.8 | The Gift of Palooza Edition. |
| 0:09.9 | I'm Jamil Meu, a writer, contributor displays |
| 0:12.8 | parent-feeding parenting column, and mom to Naimo, |
| 0:15.8 | who's 10, and we live in Los Angeles. |
| 0:19.3 | I'm Zach Rosen. |
| 0:20.2 | I make another podcast called The Best Advice Show and I'm Dad to Noah, who's six and |
| 0:24.9 | Ami who's three. We live in Detroit, Michigan. |
| 0:27.2 | I'm Elizabeth New Camp. I write the Family Travel Blog Dutch, Dutch Goose. I'm the mom of Three |
| 0:32.3 | Little, Henry who's 11, Oliver |
| 0:34.0 | his 9 and Teddy who's 7. We live in Tokyo Japan. Today's episode will be packed |
| 0:40.3 | with gifts galore. We're first helping a listener pick out the perfect gift for her friend who just became a single parent. |
| 0:47.0 | We're also tackling a question that isn't related to the holidays, but it's about gifts. |
| 0:52.0 | Our letter writer writers kid constantly comes home with gifts. |
| 0:56.5 | Suspicious? Maybe. But if these were really gifts, should they be reciprocating? |
| 1:02.2 | Finally, we'll wrap up the episode |
| 1:03.8 | by talking about a really interesting article |
| 1:05.8 | about gifting in a way that doesn't spoil your kids. |
| 1:09.2 | All right, without further ado, |
| 1:10.6 | let's get into our first question. |
| 1:13.0 | Hello mom and dad team. |
| 1:14.8 | My best friend became a single mom by choice six months ago and is deep in the wonderful |
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