Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - My Niece Doesn’t Think Racism Is Real
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🗓️ 12 October 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Elizabeth, Zak and Jamilah help a listener whose niece lives overseas… and thinks that racism doesn’t exist anymore. How can the listener help educate, but not in a judgy or alienating way?
We also go over our week in triumphs and fails — and then, if you stick around for Slate Plus, we decide whether Arnold Schwarzenegger’s parenting strategies deserve an “I’d Do That” or a termination.
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Podcast produced by Rosemary Belson and Maura Currie.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Mom & Dadr Fighting. Slates Parenting Podcast. For Thursday, October 12, the |
| 0:08.6 | help my niece might be a racist addition. I'm Jamil Lemieux, a writer, contributor to |
| 0:14.9 | Slates' care and feeding parents in column. And mom's Naima, who's 10 and we live in LA. |
| 0:20.3 | I'm Zach Rosen. I make another podcast that's called The Best in Vice Show. And I'm dad |
| 0:24.6 | to Noah, who's 6 and Ami, who's 3. We live in Detroit. |
| 0:28.4 | I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog Dutch Dutch Goose. I'm |
| 0:32.5 | the mom of three littles, Henry, who's 11, Oliver, who's 9, and Teddy, who's 7. We live |
| 0:37.5 | in Tokyo, Japan. |
| 0:39.5 | Sam's show, we have an interesting question from a listener who discovered that their |
| 0:44.1 | niece doesn't believe racism exists. The niece lives in Europe. Our listener lives in |
| 0:49.8 | the US and wants to help educate this 13-year-old. We're also going to catch up on our |
| 0:54.9 | week in parenting. And then, if you're in the Slate Plus Club, we're going to be playing |
| 0:59.2 | a game based off Arnold Schwarzenegger's weird parenting tactics. Here's what she'll hear |
| 1:04.6 | if you have Slate Plus. |
| 1:06.8 | Okay, once Arnold Schwarzenegger threw his daughter's shoes into the fireplace and burned them. |
| 1:15.1 | After she failed several times, put the shoes away properly. |
| 1:18.9 | Are we burning shoes? |
| 1:24.9 | No. |
| 1:25.9 | Shoes are too expensive to burn. I mean, my kid shoes are so expensive. |
| 1:32.9 | Shoes are expensive. |
| 1:33.9 | We're not even buying nice shoes. |
| 1:35.9 | No. |
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