My Daughter Wants to Convert to Islam. I'm Worried She Just Wants Attention.
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Elizabeth, Jamilah, and Zak answer a listener letter about a preteen who is interested in converting to Islam. Her parents are supportive and have offered opportunities to explore the faith. But instead of starting with learning more deeply about the religion, she wants to start with wearing a headscarf to school—which makes our letter writer worry that this is a performative move. Our hosts talk through ways to be supportive, but also frank about the seriousness of religion.
They also dive into their ‘triumphs and fails’ of the week, which include: some “light bullying” and conflict resolution, successful LA meetups, and violent language softened by the Mountain Goats. Then, on Slate Plus: the ‘dadfluencers’ who have taken Sweden by storm.
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| 1:02.9 | Welcome to Momma Data Fighting, Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday, March 9th, |
| 1:07.7 | the Choosing My Religion Edition. I'm Zach Rosen, I make another show, it's called The Best |
| 1:12.3 | Advice Show and I live in Detroit with my family. My daughter Noah is five and a half, |
| 1:17.5 | and my son Ami is two and a half. I'm Elizabeth Newcamp, I write the homeschool and family travel blog |
| 1:23.2 | Dutch Dutch Goose. I'm the mom of three little's, Henry, who's 10, Oliver, who's eight, and Teddy, |
| 1:27.8 | who's six. We live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I'm Jameela Lemieux, a writer, |
| 1:33.3 | contributor to Slate's care and feeding parenting column, and mom to Naima, who will be 10 |
| 1:38.4 | at the end of this month, and we live in Los Angeles. Today, we're going to catch up on our |
| 1:43.3 | recon parenting with her round of triumphs and fails. Then we've got a question about a preteen |
| 1:47.6 | who is brought up in a Christian family and is interested in converting to Islam. |
| 1:52.0 | For parents are supportive, but I hung up on whether to allow her to wear a head scarf to school |
| 1:56.7 | without being born or raised in that faith. Then, if you're sticking around for Slate Plus, |
| 2:01.3 | we're going to be talking about the dad-fluencer documentary that's tearing Sweden apart from the inside. |
| 2:07.3 | Here's what you'll hear if you have Slate Plus. The documentary about these dad-fluencers, |
| 2:13.1 | three dads, has completely polarized the nation. They're having meetings and panel discussions. |
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