Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Middle School Magic
Slate Books
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3.8 • 546 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Elizabeth talks with Chris Balme, author of Finding the Magic In Middle School. He explains what drives tweens, why this period is fundamentally different than high school, and how to guide them through this transition. Jamilah, Zak, and Elizabeth also open up the mailbag and give some recommendations.
Recommendations:
Zak: Watch David Byrne sing When Doves Cry at a karaoke bar
Elizabeth: Professor Noggin Cards, Binder Rings
Jamilah: Florida Man on Netflix
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Monday, May 1st, the Middle School Magic Edition. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, contributor to Slate's Karen feeding parenting column, and mom to Naima, who is 10, and we live in Los Angeles. |
| 0:18.4 | I'm Zach Rosen, host of another show. It's called The Best Advice Show. And I am Dad to Noah, who is 5.5 and Ami, who's 2 and a half. We live in Detroit. I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch, Goose. I'm the mom of three littles, Henry who's 11, Oliver who's 8, and Teddy who's 6. We live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Today on the show, |
| 0:39.8 | Elizabeth will be talking with author and educator Chris Baum about his new book, Finding the Magic |
| 0:45.0 | in Middle School. Yes, it was wonderful because I have one headed to middle school. And as you |
| 0:50.9 | hear, Chris firmly believes that middle schoolers are misunderstood and we as parents |
| 0:56.2 | should not be dreading these years. We should be looking forward to them, which was kind of |
| 1:01.1 | music to my ears. So he has a lot of advice about maintaining relationships and helping middle |
| 1:06.2 | schoolers flourish. It's a really fun discussion and I can't wait for y'all to hear it. |
| 1:12.1 | We're back and I'm now joined by author and educator Chris Baum. Chris, can you tell us a little |
| 1:18.1 | more about who you are? Hi, I'm Chris Baum, and I've had the pleasure of working with middle |
| 1:23.0 | schoolers who I think are the most underappreciated humans on the planet for about 20 years and wrote this book |
| 1:28.9 | Finding the Magic in Middle School to help people change the story. We have really terrible expectations |
| 1:34.8 | of middle school and sometimes we make those come true as a result. So this book and my work is about |
| 1:40.7 | changing that based on understanding the neuroscience of middle schoolers. |
| 1:44.8 | Well, Chris, I am so glad you're here because, as listeners know, I just now have a middle |
| 1:50.5 | schooler. I have a, my oldest has just turned 11 and we'll start sixth grade next year. And all |
| 1:56.0 | of my friends, we are like dreading this. I feel like we have felt like it is the end of something or the beginning of something else. |
| 2:04.8 | And your book was such a welcome perspective because I was like, no, it is. |
| 2:10.2 | I mean, it is an end in a beginning and we're going to talk about that. |
| 2:12.7 | But it's something that we can really view as beautiful. |
| 2:17.2 | Thank you. I'm so glad to hear. That's what I'm |
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