Is My Child a Monster?
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Zak and Jamilah are joined by Leslie Cohen-Rubury — therapist and host of the podcast Is My Child a Monster? They start by talking about lessons from therapy and how Leslie’s show is helping to make therapy advice and resources more accessible. They also help a listener whose kid pulled a disappearing act after a fight during family vacation.
Recommendations:
Jamilah: Suits
Leslie: All That Breathes, An Immense World by Ed Yong and an ‘awe walk.’
Zak: Hunting seashells and making jewelry.
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| 0:32.4 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are fighting. Slate's parenting podcast for Monday, July 24th. |
| 0:37.1 | It's my child, a monster addition. I'm Zach Rosen. I host another podcast. It's called |
| 0:42.5 | The Best Advice Show. I'm the dad's Noah who's five and Ami who is two. We live in Detroit. |
| 0:48.8 | I'm Jamila Mew. I'm a writer, contributor to Slate's care and feeding parents in column |
| 0:54.0 | and mom tonight, Ami who is 10 and we live in Los Angeles. I'm Leslie Cohen-Rubari. I am a clinical |
| 1:01.7 | social worker with a private practice and the parenting podcast name is my child, a monster. |
| 1:07.1 | I have three children. Travis is 36 years old. Dale and Carrie are twins and they are 33 years old |
| 1:14.9 | and I live in Western Connecticut. Today on the show we're going to talk to Leslie about her show |
| 1:20.5 | and what we can learn from listening into family therapy sessions. Then we'll answer a listener |
| 1:25.2 | question about two kids who pulled a disappearing act during family vacation. We'll end today by |
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