Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - My Kid Has Zero Personal Bubble
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3.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Elizabeth, Zak and Jamilah advise the parent of a handsy kindergartener. The little girl comes from a cuddly family and just doesn’t have a sense of personal space… and it’s impacting her school experience as a result. How can a parent help teach the value of a bubble?
Zak found two books that might be helpful: Personal Space Camp and Personal Space Invader.
We’ll also debrief on our week in parenting with a round of triumphs and fails, and then offer some important perspective on how long kids have been killing time with screens.
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Podcast produced by Maura Currie, with special thanks to Rosemary Belson.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode may contain explicit language. |
| 0:05.6 | Welcome to Karen Feeding, the show where we raise the next generation together. |
| 0:09.4 | I'm Elizabeth New Camp. |
| 0:10.6 | I write the family travel blog Dutch Dutch Goose. I'm the mom of three little's Henry |
| 0:14.6 | who's 11, Oliver who's 9, and Teddy who's 7. We live in Tokyo, Japan. |
| 0:19.5 | I'm Jamila Lemie, a writer, contributed a slates care and feeding parenting column, and mom to Naima, who's 10, and we live in Los Angeles. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm Zach Rosen. I make another podcast, it's called The Best Advice Show, and I'm Dad to Noah who is six and |
| 0:34.2 | Ami who's three we live in Detroit. This week we're answering a question about a |
| 0:38.4 | kindergartner who's having trouble keeping her hands to herself. She's gotten in trouble at school for this and her mom |
| 0:44.8 | can't help but blame herself a little bit. We'll talk about why this might be |
| 0:48.4 | happening and how to teach the value of the personal bubble. Then we're going to debrief our weekend parenting |
| 0:54.4 | with a round of everyone's favorite, |
| 0:56.1 | Triumphs and Fails. |
| 0:57.5 | So let's get this show on the road. |
| 0:59.0 | We're going to take a quick break |
| 1:00.5 | and then we'll see you back here for our listener question. |
| 1:05.0 | All right, we're back and ready to hop into our listener question. |
| 1:11.0 | This came from the slate parenting |
| 1:13.0 | Facebook group, which we'd love for you to come join if you're not already |
| 1:16.2 | there. The question was posted by a member of the group named Chloe. |
| 1:19.8 | Can anyone help me with conversation slash tricks |
| 1:23.0 | ideas for teaching a kindergartner to keep her hands to herself? |
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