Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Mealtime Meltdowns
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Zak, Jamilah, and Elizabeth advise a listener who is fed up with her partner’s picky eating. His preferences have made it nearly impossible to meal prep, which he doesn’t help with. On top of that, he’s taken to complaining about the food in front of their kid.
Recommendations:
Jamilah: Cheetos’ Flamin’ Hot with Limón
Elizabeth: Self-Compassion Workbook for Kids
Zak: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
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| 0:00.0 | Spark your creativity with the Sims. |
| 0:04.0 | Sometimes you might feel like you're not creative, |
| 0:07.0 | and you have to go and search of your creative spark again. |
| 0:10.0 | Maybe this is catching up with creative friends, |
| 0:13.0 | experimenting with a new look, or trying out a new recipe, |
| 0:16.0 | and thanks to the Sims, inspiration is just one game and one spark away. |
| 0:21.0 | Ready to spark something? |
| 0:23.0 | Download the Sims 4 and play for free. |
| 0:27.0 | This episode contains explicit language. |
| 0:32.0 | Welcome to Mom and Ed are fighting. |
| 0:34.0 | Slate's parenting podcast for Monday, April 24th. |
| 0:37.0 | The our picky eater is my partner edition. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm Zach Rosen. I make a different show. |
| 0:44.0 | It's called The Best Advice Show. |
| 0:46.0 | And I am Dad Tanoa, who is five and a half, |
| 0:49.0 | and Ami, who's two and a half. We live in Detroit. |
| 0:52.0 | I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool |
| 0:54.0 | and family travel blog Dutch Dutch Goose. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm the mom of three little's, Henry, |
| 0:58.0 | who's 11, Oliver, who's eight, and Teddy, who's six. |
| 1:01.0 | We live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
| 1:03.0 | I'm Jamile Lemieux. I'm a writer, |
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