Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - My 4th Grader Needs Help Boredom Busting
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🗓️ 5 February 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Elizabeth Newcamp, Zak Rosen, and Jamilah Lemieux help a member of our Facebook group brainstorm ways to keep a 4th grader occupied… that don’t revolve around screentime. With busy schedules and parents working from home, it’s hard to be hands-on. But we have some ideas.
We’ll also share a round of recommendations — and then, if you’re in the Slate Plus club, we’ll dispense some highly subjective wisdom about the best times to do… well, everything.
Recommendations:
Elizabeth recommends: ordering a specialty meal on airplanes
Zak recommends: the Hairstreaq brush
Jamilah recommends: Ugly Betty
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Podcast produced by Maura Currie, with special thanks to Rosemary Belson.
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| 0:00.0 | Like some kind of Pizza Ninja, Domino's are slicing their prices. |
| 0:05.0 | Domino's price slice. |
| 0:07.0 | Small pizzas now 8 quid, medium now 10 quid, |
| 0:10.0 | and large now 12 quid. |
| 0:12.0 | Yet we're making cuts too. |
| 0:14.0 | In 11th of February 24, minimum delivery spend, charges and areas may apply. |
| 0:18.0 | Toes and see, see Domino's dot-co-K. |
| 0:20.0 | Looking forward to a sun-soaked getaway with Sun Express Airlines. |
| 0:24.0 | Picture your kid's laughter on the golden beaches of Turkey, a backdrop of sea breezes. |
| 0:29.0 | Sun Express flies you from Edinburgh to Dalaman's peaceful beaches to enjoy sunny moments. |
| 0:35.0 | Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Air Lines. |
| 0:39.0 | This episode may contain explicit language. |
| 0:44.0 | Welcome to Karen Feeding, the show where we parent together. |
| 0:48.0 | I'm Jamila Lemieu, a writer, |
| 0:50.0 | contributed a slate's Karen Feeding |
| 0:52.0 | parenting column, and Mog T Naima who's 10 and we live in Los Angeles. |
| 0:56.5 | I'm Zach Rosen I'm host of another podcast it's called The Best Advice Show and I'm |
| 1:01.2 | Dad to Noah who's 6 and Ami who's three. We live in Detroit. |
| 1:04.6 | I'm Elizabeth New Camp. I write the family travel blog Dutch Dutch Goose and I'm the mom of |
| 1:08.8 | three little's Henry who's 11 Oliver who's 9, and Teddy's 7. |
| 1:13.0 | We live in Tokyo, Japan. |
| 1:15.0 | Today on the show, we've got a parent who's struggling with keeping a fourth grader off-screen time |
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