Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - I Don't Want to Trailblaze Edition
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🗓️ 1 July 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Elizabeth, Dan, and Jamilah answer a question from a parent who is wondering how to help her 10-year-old who struggled to learn during this last year of school. What can she do to help her daughter catch up this summer?
Then, they advise a hard-working architect who really wants some architect-mom role models to look up to when trying to figure out work-life balance. Stepping in to help is Dr. Barbara Faga, who has blazed her own trail, as a professional, parent and an urban planner.
In Slate Plus: You get an extra special bonus question about a girl who kicked her brother in the balls. Sign up for Slate Plus.
Recommendations:
Jamilah recommends Diahann! By Diahann Carroll and Ross Firestone.
Dan recommends the Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance ride at Hollywood Studios in Disney World.
Elizabeth recommends the Barrel of Fun Two Gallon Water Jug from Igloo.
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| 0:00.0 | Just to give you a heads up, one of us is bound to say something not suitable for little ears. |
| 0:04.5 | It is, after all, the one hour a day I spend away from my children. |
| 0:10.5 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday, July 1st, the I don't want a trailblaze edition. |
| 0:18.6 | I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch goose. I'm the mom to three littles, Henry who's nine, Oliver who's seven, and Teddy who's four, and we live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I'm Dan Coice. I'm a writer for Slate and the author of The Book How to Be a Family. I'm the dad of Lyra, who's 16, and Harper, who's 13, and we live in Arlington, |
| 0:39.1 | Virginia. I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, contributor to Slate's Karen Feeding Parenting |
| 0:45.2 | Parenting Column and mom to Naima, who is eight, and we live in Los Angeles, California. |
| 0:50.8 | On today's show, we've got a question from a parent who is wondering how to help her 10-year-old who struggled to learn during this last year of school. |
| 0:58.0 | What can she do to help her daughter catch up this summer? |
| 1:01.1 | Then we're advising a hardworking architect who really wants some architect mom role models to look up to when trying to figure out a work-life balance. |
| 1:09.5 | Stepping into help is Dr. Barbara Faga, who has |
| 1:12.2 | blazed her own trail as a professional parent and an urban planner. And on Slate Plus, you get an |
| 1:18.2 | extra special bonus question about a girl who kicked her brother in the balls. Now, the parents are |
| 1:23.5 | wondering how to let her know that it's an extra sensitive location, you know, without making |
| 1:28.3 | it a target for a potential knockout. But first, we're going to kick off the show with some |
| 1:32.8 | triumphs and fails. So, Dan, you first. I think kick off the show is inappropriate in light |
| 1:38.2 | of the plus segment. And I'd like to ask that that be stricken from the record. I have a Disney triumph because we were at Disney. |
| 1:47.2 | Elizabeth, you just left Florida, so you no longer have to deal with the insanity that is Disney World on the regs. |
| 1:55.5 | But we went for a couple of days after school let out. We bought some tickets over spring break because the school year was so truly terrible |
| 2:04.1 | that we wanted to find some way to reward our children for making it through the world's |
| 2:09.4 | most awful school year. |
| 2:10.3 | And we asked them what they wanted. |
| 2:11.4 | And we thought they would say something sophisticated in teenagery. |
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