Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Lessons in Parenting Again
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🗓️ 26 June 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Jamilah Lemieux, Zak Rosen, and Elizabeth Newcamp are joined by award-winning author and journalist, Desiree Cooper. At 62, Desiree started her second round of parenting when she took in her three grandkids. She wrote about her experience for the New York Times in a piece called What if I Hadn’t Been There to Catch Them?.
Recommendations:
Elizabeth: Sketch Pals Doodle Board from Boogie Board
Des: CROWNED: Magical Folk and Fairy Tales from the Diaspora by Kahran Bethencourt and Regis Bethencourt.
Zak: Bring a comfy chair to the park!
Jamilah: Ginny & Georgia on Netflix.
Bonus: Nothing Special by Desiree Cooper
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Mom & Data Fighting, Slates Parenting Podcast for Monday, June 26th, the Grand |
| 0:08.7 | Parenting Solo Edition. |
| 0:11.6 | I'm Jamil Lemieux, a writer, contributor to Slates Parent Feeding Parenting Column, |
| 0:16.7 | and Mom to Naima, who's 10, and we live in Los Angeles. |
| 0:20.3 | I'm Elizabeth Newkamp, I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch Goose. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm the mom of three little, Henry, who's 11, Oliver, who's 9, and Teddy, who's 6. |
| 0:28.7 | We currently live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
| 0:31.7 | I'm Zach Rosen, I make another show, it's called the Best It Fight Show, and I'm dad |
| 0:35.9 | to Noah, who is 5, and Ami, who's 2, we live in Detroit. |
| 0:40.2 | Today on the show, we're going to be talking about a group of parents who rarely get the |
| 0:44.4 | credit they deserve. |
| 0:46.2 | Grandparents who are acting as parents. |
| 0:49.1 | We're going to be joined by a war-winning author, Desray Cooper, about her experience raising |
| 0:53.4 | three kids alone at the age of 62. |
| 0:56.7 | Call that after this quick break. |
| 1:02.5 | We're back and now joined by Desray Cooper, who wrote a wonderful piece for the New York |
| 1:06.4 | Times, called What If I Hadn't Been There To Catch Them. |
| 1:10.0 | Des, welcome. |
| 1:11.0 | Thanks for having me, I'm excited. |
| 1:12.8 | Des, I haven't seen you, I don't know how long it's been, COVID has skewed time entirely, |
| 1:17.8 | but like we hadn't spoken in a few years, and then I didn't even realize you've moved |
| 1:22.7 | down to the Virginia Beach area out of Detroit, and you are taking care of 9 and a 6, and |
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