Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Knuckle Sandwich Edition
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🗓️ 17 June 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Dan, Jamilah, and Elizabeth have advice for a mom who is less than pleased at her in-law’s ongoing joke with her toddler. Let’s just say the joke involves knuckle sandwiches and a fake punch to the eye. Can she raise her concerns without causing conflict? Or should she just let the joke slide?
Then—a very special guest joins the show… Jamilah’s mom, Isoke! She chats about what it was like raising little Jamilah and tells a hilarious story about the time Jamilah decided to run away.
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Recommendations:
Elizabeth recommends GoCube Smart Rubik's Cube.
Jamilah recommends Ruffles Queso Potato Chips
Dan recommends the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is for parents. |
| 0:02.3 | Maybe not for kids. |
| 0:06.2 | Hello and welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting. |
| 0:08.4 | Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, June 17, the knuckle sandwich edition. |
| 0:13.5 | I'm Dan Coice. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm a writer at Slate in the author of The Book How to Be a Family. |
| 0:17.3 | I'm the dad of Lyra, who's 16, and Harper, who's 13. |
| 0:20.4 | We live in Arlington, Virginia. I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, contributor to Slate's care and feeding parenting column, and mom to Naima, who is eight, and we live in Los Angeles, California. I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch, Goose. I'm the mom to three littlesles, Henry who's nine, Oliver who's seven, and Teddy who's four. |
| 0:40.5 | And we live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
| 0:43.5 | On today's show, we are talking about a mother-in-law who just loves to threaten her young |
| 0:49.1 | grandchildren with a knuckle sandwich. |
| 0:51.6 | What should our letter writer do? |
| 0:53.5 | She's not in love with this behavior. Then we have a veryuckle sandwich. What should our letter writer do? She's not in love with this behavior. |
| 0:55.3 | Then we have a very special visitor. |
| 0:58.3 | It's Jamila's mom. |
| 0:59.8 | We finally get to ask Jamila's mom all the questions we've ever had about how the |
| 1:04.0 | hell Jamila turned out the way that she turned out. |
| 1:06.4 | We're very excited. |
| 1:08.5 | On Slate Plus today, we're talking about Selena, the I Escapeed Books, and what happens when |
| 1:13.1 | your traumatic history becomes just the next thing your kid is super interested in? |
| 1:17.6 | But as always, we're going to kick it off with some triumphs and some fails. |
| 1:21.9 | Jamila, what do you got? |
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