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Welcome to Mom and Dad Our Fighting. Slates Parenting Podcast for Thursday, September 28th.

The Stranger Danger Edition. I'm Zach Rosen. I make another podcast. It's called the

Best Advice Show. And I'm Dad Sonoa, who's six, and I'm who's three. We live in Detroit.

I'm Jemela Neu, a writer, contributor to Slates' care and feeding parenting column,

and mom to Naima, who's ten, and we live in Los Angeles. I'm Elizabeth Newcamp. I write

the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch Goose. I'm the mom of three littles, Henry,

who's eleven, Oliver, who's nine, and Teddy, who's six. We live in Tokyo Japan. Today on the show,

approaching strangers. An admirable trait in adults, a potentially worrying trait in young kids.

We're going to help one parent who doesn't know what to do about a kid who loves approaching

random adults. We're also going to catch up on our weekend parenting and if you're in the Slate

Plus Club, we're going to be talking about parenting rules that we totally ignore. Here's what you

hear if you have Slate Plus. Would you guys ignore a no-gift rule, though? I wouldn't. You know,

unless I had some sort of special relationship with a child, maybe if my sister said no gifts,

I might be like, this is my nephew I'm buying a gift, but with somebody else outside the family,

I think I would respect that. I think it sucks a little bit. Part of the joy of a birthday party

is all that stuff you have when you go home, but I wouldn't violate the rule.

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