Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Mixing God and Gatorade In Youth Sports
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🗓️ 27 February 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Elizabeth and Jamilah are joined by friend of the show, Travis Nichols. Travis is a writer and editor from Georgia and recently wrote an interesting piece about his experience trying to find a youth basketball league for his daughters. Other parents pointed him towards an affordable, accessible option. The catch? It was run by the Southern Baptist Church. Which begs the question—should you still sign your kids up if you don’t agree with the church’s values and prayer is built into the program.
Recommendations:
Jamilah recommends baking a chocolate strawberry cake.
Travis recommends revisiting The Diaries of Franz Kafka as a parent.
Elizabeth recommends a good ole sing-along and dance party in the car.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to mom and dad are fighting Slate's parenting podcasts for Monday, February 27th. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm Elizabeth Newcamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog Dutch Dutch Goose. |
| 0:11.3 | A mom of three little, Henry Houston, Oliver his eight and Teddy his six. |
| 0:15.4 | We live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I'm Jamile Lemieux, a writer, |
| 0:20.8 | contributor to Slate's care and feeding parents in column. And mom Tanaima who is almost 10 |
| 0:26.8 | and we live in Los Angeles. Today on the show Jamile and I will be talking |
| 0:30.6 | with friend of the show Travis Nichols. Travis joined us this fall to talk about his |
| 0:34.8 | experience with his son trying to game youth baseball. Well, he's back and he just wrote |
| 0:39.6 | an interesting piece about how youth sports are intermingled with religion and politics. |
| 0:44.8 | So we'll get into that first and then we're going to wrap up the show with some recommendations. |
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