Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Mom Group Messiness
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🗓️ 25 August 2022
⏱️ 27 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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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Tinder. Life is full of possibilities. A cheeky reply |
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| 0:22.4 | or something personal, no matter what, all matches lead to self-discovery. Download |
| 0:27.7 | Tinder now. This episode contains explicit language. Welcome to Mom and Dad Our Fighting. Slates |
| 0:36.2 | Parenting Podcast for Thursday, August 25th. The Mom Group Messiness Edition. I'm Zach |
| 0:42.1 | Rosen, I make the Best Advice Show Podcast, and I live in Detroit with my family. My |
| 0:46.7 | oldest Noah is almost five, and my youngest Ami is almost two. I'm Jameela Lemieux, a writer, |
| 0:52.6 | contributor to Slates' care and feeding parents in column, and Mom's tonight Ema, who |
| 0:57.2 | is nine, and we live in Los Angeles. I'm Elizabeth Newcamp, I write the Home School |
| 1:01.7 | and Family Travel Blog Dutch Dutch Goose. I'm the mom of three little, Henry, who's ten, |
| 1:06.0 | Oliver, who's eight, and Teddy, who's five. We live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
| 1:11.3 | Today's letter writer is feeling left out of her mom groups. The kids get along great, |
| 1:15.9 | and the other moms are cordial enough, but they never invite her to hang out with them |
| 1:19.3 | outside of the group, and never reciprocate invitations. Our dear letter writer is left |
| 1:23.7 | feeling like an afterthought. Don't worry, we've got some thoughts for her, and for these |
| 1:28.3 | other moms. Then on Slate Plus, we're going to be talking about the morning rush out |
| 1:32.3 | the door. Here's a sneak peek of what you'll hear if you have Slate Plus. |
| 1:36.3 | I think what makes it feel so crazy is this overarching feeling of like, I also don't |
| 1:41.0 | want to push them out the door with me in a bad mood, because that is the wrong foot, |
| 1:45.2 | right? So like, what can we do to get us out on a good foot, but also prepared? It is |
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