Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Morbidly Curious Edition
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🗓️ 19 August 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Jamilah, Elizabeth, and Aymann discuss their triumphs and fails for the week. Then they answer a question from a listener whose 6 year old daughter has become fixated on finding a cure for death.
Later, they have some advice for a parent whose own parents are excellent grandparents to her children but who often cross some boundary lines.
In Slate Plus: The latest UN report on climate change. How can we discuss this with our children without scaring the crap out of them?
Recommendations:
Jamilah recommends AND8 Fitness for people who love to have fun during their workouts.
Elizabeth recommends Kids Quip -- an electric toothbrush for kids that will help you get them out the door a little faster in the mornings.
Aymann recommends buying an INSTAX Polaroid Camera to hand out polaroid pictures in place of party favors.
Join us on Facebook and email us at momanddad@slate.com to ask us new questions, tell us what you thought of today’s show, and give us ideas about what we should talk about in future episodes.
Podcast produced by Morgan Flannery.
Hosts
Elizabeth Newcamp is a co-host of Mom and Dad Are Fighting. She's a traveling mother of three boys who chronicles her misadventures at Dutch, Dutch, Goose.
Jamilah Lemieux is a writer, cultural critic, and communications strategist based in Brooklyn, New York.
Aymann Ismail is an award winning staff writer at Slate whose work focuses on identity and religion.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.6 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcasts for Thursday, August 19th, the Morbidly Curious Edition. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, contributors to Slate's Karen Feeding Parenting Column and Mom to Naima, who is eight and we live in Los Angeles, California. I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch, Goose, and I'm the mom to three littles, Henry, who's 9, Oliver, who's 7, and Teddy who's 4. We live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. And I'm Aymus Mait, and I'm tired. My son was born two months ago. His name is |
| 0:41.0 | Musa. He's everything to me, but also I'm really mad at him because he kept me up all night last |
| 0:45.8 | night. So that's, that's where I'm starting. Well, welcome, Aman. I have to admit, I did not |
| 0:51.1 | expect you to be the new Dan. I was like, he's got to be so tired right now. |
| 0:58.2 | I don't think I'm anywhere close to being Dan, but I, uh, I don't know. |
| 1:02.6 | I read a little bit of his book, How to Be a Family. |
| 1:04.8 | And so far, it's not really that helpful. |
| 1:07.8 | I'd like to just pick up and go to Sweden and try some things out. |
| 1:11.1 | But I'm right now just trying to manage the crying, manage the gas, trying to figure out if poop |
| 1:17.5 | actually ever comes out of your fingers or not. Oh my God. Those are my questions. |
| 1:22.9 | Well, these are questions that some of us have left long in the past so we're happy to have you to |
| 1:29.4 | help our listeners out as a brand spanking new father and newly minted expert because that's what |
| 1:36.0 | happens when a man starts something it's like two months then it's like an expert we have you |
| 1:41.6 | here to help out and laugh at people's problems like we did last week. So welcome. |
| 1:46.4 | We are happy to have you hanging out with us for a while while Dan is on book leave, quote |
| 1:52.4 | unquote. And today we're going to be answering a listener question from a parent whose sweet |
| 1:57.2 | little six-year-old daughter has recently become fixated on the idea of finding a cure for death. |
| 2:04.2 | Girl, me too. |
| 2:05.6 | How can her mother guide her little one through this curious time without crushing her creativity? |
| 2:14.1 | Then we're going to give some quote-unquote advice to a listener who's trying to navigate |
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