Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Let Them Sleep In
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🗓️ 19 September 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Lisa Lewis, journalist, and author of The Sleep Deprived Teen joins the show to unpack the myths surrounding teen sleep. Lisa explains why teens actually need more sleep (even if they’re staying up super late), how to get schools to start later, and why you and your teen should still have a wind-down bedtime routine.
Recommendations:
Jamilah recommends Rap Sh!t, a comedy series created by Issa Rae.
Zak recommends a narrative podcast series called Mother Country Radicals.
Elizabeth recommends cute, fun, and nerdy T-shirts from TeaTurtle
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Podcast produced by Kristie Taiwo-Makanjuola and Rosemary Belson.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode contains explicit language. |
| 0:06.3 | Welcome to Mom of Data Fighting, |
| 0:07.6 | Slate's parenting podcast from Monday, September 19th. |
| 0:10.4 | The Let Them Sleep in Edition. |
| 0:12.6 | I'm Zach Rosen, I host a podcast called The Best Advice Show, |
| 0:16.1 | and I live in Detroit with my family. |
| 0:18.3 | My oldest Noah is five, and my youngest Ami is two. |
| 0:22.4 | I'm Elizabeth Newkamp, I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch Goose. |
| 0:26.0 | I'm the mom to three littles, Henry has ten, Oliver who's eight, and Teddy who's five. |
| 0:30.3 | We live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
| 0:33.2 | I'm Jamile Lemieux, a writer, contributor to Slate's care and feeding parenting column, |
| 0:38.0 | and mom to Naima who is nine, and we live in Los Angeles. |
| 0:42.0 | Today on the show, Elizabeth talks with author Lisa Lewis about her book, The Sleep Deprived |
| 0:46.8 | Teen. Why our teenagers are so tired, and how parents and schools can help them thrive. |
| 0:51.6 | But first, we wanted to jump into the mailbag. |
| 0:53.7 | We got a few letters from listeners that have thoughts on the Between Two Homes episode. |
| 0:59.1 | Hi mom and dad, as a person who was raised in a 50-50 home situation that was less than ideal, |
| 1:04.6 | I wanted to write in, I was once a kid who was telling one parent, |
| 1:08.0 | I'm not comfortable at the other house, I don't feel safe, and it was not heard or acted upon |
| 1:13.3 | as much as it should have been. I was forced to do 50-50 time until turning 18, |
| 1:18.6 | and now have a very strained relationship, at best, with the parent whose house I was trying to |
| 1:23.8 | avoid. I've spent a lot of time in therapy trying to come to terms with feelings of abandonment, |
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