Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - I Refuse to Replace My Husband With a Nanny
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🗓️ 8 January 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Zak Rosen, Elizabeth Newcamp, and Jamilah Lemieux help a listener who is fed up. Her husband works a lot and when he is around he’s only ‘fun dad.’ Upon experiencing burnout, the letter writer asked her husband to pitch in more—to which he suggested ‘hire a nanny.’ Elizabeth, Jamilah, and Zak have suggestions for rebalancing the relationship. They also share recommendations and then, on Slate Plus, they discuss the parenting resolutions they are not going to keep this year.
Recommendations:
Zak: Wonka
Jamilah: Wonka and The Color Purple
Elizabeth: TypeLit.io
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Karen Peding, The Show Where We Parent Together. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Elizabeth New Camp. |
| 0:07.1 | I write the Family Travel blog Dutch Goose. |
| 0:09.2 | I'm the mom of Three Littles, Henry who's 11, Oliver |
| 0:11.8 | who's 9, and Petty who's 7, Oliver, His 9, and Petty, who's 7. |
| 0:13.6 | We live in Tokyo, Japan. |
| 0:15.7 | I'm Jamele Mu, a writer, |
| 0:17.7 | contributor to Slate's Parent Feeding Parenting Column, |
| 0:20.5 | and Mom's Naima, who's's 10 and we live in Los Angeles. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm Zach Rosen. I host another podcast that's called The Best Advice Show and I am |
| 0:28.8 | Dad to Noah who's 6 and Army who's 3. We live in Detroit. |
| 0:32.3 | Today on the show we have a very interesting and Army who's three. We live in Detroit. |
| 0:33.0 | Today on the show, we have a very interesting letter from a mom who's fed up with her husband |
| 0:37.6 | thinking he doesn't need to be involved in raising their kids. |
| 0:40.8 | He even told her that if she needs help, she can hire a nanny. |
| 0:44.4 | Obviously, we have some thoughts. |
| 0:47.2 | We're also going to recommend some things we're loving right now and think you might too. |
| 0:50.6 | And then, if you're in this late Plus Plus Club we're going to reveal the parenting |
| 0:54.0 | resolutions we might make but absolutely cannot keep this year. Here's what |
| 0:58.1 | you'll hear if you have Slate Plus. I mean with the Screen Time one I just still think |
| 1:02.4 | back to Rebecca Laveoy, |
| 1:05.0 | former mom and dad or fighting host, |
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