Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Listeners Graded Our Take On Grades
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🗓️ 7 March 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Zak, Elizabeth and Jamilah open the Care & Feeding mailbag to talk, once again, about grades. A lot of you have thoughts about our take on grades (namely, that they’re bullsh*t), so we thought it was time to revisit the conversation… but include you, too.
We’ll also debrief on our week in parenting with a round of triumphs and fails, including stories about Hawaii, the Wiz, and an ongoing puke episode.
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Podcast produced by Maura Currie, with special thanks to Rosemary Belson.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode may contain explicit language. |
| 0:05.2 | Welcome to Karen Feeding, the show where we raise the next generation together. |
| 0:09.2 | I'm Zach Rosen, I make another podcast that's called the Best Advice Show and I am Dad to Noah who's six and Ami who's three we're in Detroit |
| 0:16.7 | I'm Jamila Lemieu a writer |
| 0:19.3 | Contributor to Slate's Karen Feeding Parenting Column and Mom to Naima, who is just about 11, and we live in Los Angeles. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm Elizabeth New Camp. I write the Family Travel Blog Dutch Goose. I'm the mom of Three Littles, Henry |
| 0:31.8 | who's 11, Oliver who's 9, and Teddy who's 7. |
| 0:34.7 | We live in Tokyo, Japan, but I'm currently in Hawaii. |
| 0:38.8 | Yes. |
| 0:39.8 | I can not always hear about this. |
| 0:41.7 | Today on the show, we're gonna hear about Liz and Hawaii, |
| 0:45.0 | obviously, but we're also opening up our mail bag |
| 0:47.3 | because it turns out a lot of you had a lot of thoughts about grades. |
| 0:50.3 | We're still getting listener mail about our grades or bullshit episode from last Monday, |
| 0:54.4 | so we thought we'd take some time to talk about this again and include you in the convo. |
| 0:58.0 | Thanks for all your really insightful emails and messages. |
| 1:01.5 | Then we'll debrief with a round of everyone's favorites, |
| 1:03.8 | Triumph and fails. So let's get going. We're going to take a quick break and |
| 1:06.8 | then we'll see you back here to open up our mailbag. |
| 1:10.3 | All right, we're back. |
| 1:13.0 | Last Monday, we answered a question from the Slate Parenting Facebook Group, all about |
| 1:17.0 | grades. |
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