Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Makeup-Obsessed Toddler Edition
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🗓️ 16 September 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Elizabeth, Aymann and guest-host Michaela Smith discuss their triumphs and fails for the week. Then they answer a question from a listener whose 4 year old daughter has recently become obsessed with wearing makeup. Should her mother be worried about this new development or just let it play out naturally?
Later, they have some advice for a parent whose toddler is dealing with some separation anxiety. What can she do to help support her daughter through these difficult feelings?
In Slate Plus: It’s almost officially fall! So we’re discussing what we’re most looking forward to and some of our favorite fall activities to do with the family.
Recommendations:
Elizabeth recommends reading Wet Cement: A Mix of Concrete Poems with your kids.
Aymann recommends giving out compliments more often! It’s been a saving grace for him and his wife during the stressful first few months of parenthood.
Michaela recommends getting ahead of your child’s anxiety or other big feelings by consulting your pediatrician about counseling. Learning coping skills early on can really help us later in life!
Join us on Facebook and email us at momanddad@slate.com to ask us new questions, tell us what you thought of today’s show, and give us ideas about what we should talk about in future episodes.
Podcast produced by Morgan Flannery.
Hosts
Elizabeth Newcamp is a co-host of Mom and Dad Are Fighting. She's a traveling mother of three boys who chronicles her misadventures at Dutch, Dutch, Goose.
Aymann Ismail is an award winning staff writer at Slate whose work focuses on identity and religion.
Michaela Smith is the mom to her three littles based out of Colorado Springs, CO.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Just to give you a heads up, one of us is bound to say something not suitable for little ears. |
| 0:04.9 | It is, after all, the one hour a day I spend away from my children. |
| 0:10.6 | Welcome to Mom and Daughter Fighting, Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday, September 16th, |
| 0:16.0 | the makeup-obsessed toddler edition. |
| 0:19.2 | I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. |
| 0:20.4 | I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch, Goose. I'm the mom to three littles, Henry who's nine, Oliver who's seven, and Teddy who's four, and we live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. And I'm Eamon Ismail. I have one little. His name is Musa. He's three months old today. He's a lot of work. He's hitting that |
| 0:38.3 | peak where he's like really interested in the world. So that means I'm drinking the same |
| 0:41.5 | cup of coffee that I poured this morning. So yay that. That is that is the most relatable |
| 0:47.3 | like the cold coffee. Well, Jamila had something come up last minute. So instead I have |
| 0:53.7 | coerced my best friend slash sister mom slash basically co-parent, Michaela Smith, who is joining us. |
| 1:01.0 | So, Michaela, will you introduce yourself? |
| 1:03.7 | Yeah, definitely. |
| 1:04.6 | Thanks so much. |
| 1:05.4 | My name was Michaela Smith. |
| 1:06.7 | I live just one mile from Elizabeth. |
| 1:09.6 | Thankfully, I have three littles just like hers. I have a nine-year-old. Asher is nine. William is seven. And Adeline, my precocious little three-year-old is keeping me very busy. In a previous life, I was a third and fourth grade teacher and have a master's degree in English as a second language. I worked in high need schools. Wow. But now I am full-time homeschooling. That's amazing. And Michaela is my, like, go-to. We were just talking before the show, too, that she has two siblings, but they are, like, what did you say, a 14-year age gap between you and the youngest. |
| 1:50.0 | And so she's always like, well, I haven't done this with my kids, but I remember my siblings. So a wealth of knowledge, and we're so glad. |
| 1:54.0 | And thank you so much that you could pop in for today. |
| 1:57.3 | On today's show, we are answering a listener question from a parent who wonders if her four-year-old's current obsession with makeup is a normal phase or if she should be a little concerned about this new development. |
| 2:08.4 | Then we'll give some advice to a listener whose daughter is struggling with some separation anxiety. |
| 2:13.1 | What can she do to better support her daughter through these difficult feelings? |
| 2:16.7 | And on Slate Plus, the weather is cooling, the leaves are changing, Halloween decorations are coming out, it's almost officially fall. |
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