Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Mom Group Messiness
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Zak, Jamilah, and Elizabeth help a letter writer who is hurt by the cliquey moms in her parenting group. All the kids get along great. But the moms constantly make her feel like an outsider, despite her initiating conversation and planning hang outs. Zak, Jamilah, and Elizabeth share some tips for making friends with other parents, knowing your value, and ditching people who aren’t giving you the time of day.
Then on Slate Plus, they discuss Angela Garbes’ piece, The Morning Rush: Parenting at its Most Essential.
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Podcast produced by Kristie Taiwo-Makanjuola and Rosemary Belson.
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| 1:05.2 | Welcome to Mom and Dad Our Fighting. Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday, August 25th. |
| 1:10.2 | The Mom Group Messiness Edition. I'm Zach Rosen. I make the Best Advice Show podcast, |
| 1:16.0 | and I live in Detroit with my family. My oldest Noah is almost five, and my youngest Ami is almost |
| 1:20.8 | two. I'm Jameela Lemieux, a writer, contributor to Slate's care and feeding parents in column, |
| 1:26.6 | and Mom Tonight Ema, who is nine, and we live in Los Angeles. I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write |
| 1:32.0 | the homeschool and family travel blog Dutch Dutch Goose. I'm the mom of three little's, Henry, |
| 1:36.4 | who's ten, Oliver, who's eight, and Teddy, who's five. We live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
| 1:42.0 | Today's letter writer is feeling left out of her mom groups. The kids get along great, |
| 1:46.6 | and the other moms are cordial enough, but they never invite her to hang out with them outside of |
| 1:50.8 | the group and never reciprocate invitations. Our dear letter writer is left feeling like an afterthought. |
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