Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - My Son Doesn’t “Play Like A Boy”
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🗓️ 1 February 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Elizabeth, Zak and Jamilah help a member of our Facebook group who’s worried that her son isn’t making friends… because the kids at school separate into gender cliques, and he’s not into roughhousing “boy stuff.” We’ll discuss how to help this kid feel more comfortable joining games — and whether the teacher needs to be looped in.
We’ll also debrief on our week in parenting with a round of triumphs and fails, and then revisit a conversation we had about a toddler with separation anxiety.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode may contain explicit language. |
| 0:02.2 | Welcome to Karen Feeding, the show where we raise the next generation together. |
| 0:09.2 | I'm Zach Rosen. |
| 0:10.1 | I host another podcast, it's called The Best Advice Show show and I'm dad to Noah who's six and |
| 0:14.8 | army who's three we live in Detroit Michigan I'm Elizabeth New Camp I write the family |
| 0:19.6 | travel blog Dutch Dutch Goose I'm the mom of three little's Henry who's 11, Oliver who's 9, and Teddy who's 7. |
| 0:26.0 | We live in Tokyo, Japan. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm Jamil Lemieu, a writer, contributor to Slate's Care and Feeding Parenting Column, and mom to Naima who's 10 and a half and we live in Los Angeles |
| 0:37.3 | Almost 11 actually. He'll be 11 next month, right? Yeah. Wow |
| 0:45.8 | This week we're answering a question that recently popped up in the slate parenting Facebook group. This mom of a five-year-old boy is hearing from |
| 0:49.8 | school that her son is spending a lot of time alone during free play because the girls in his |
| 0:54.4 | class don't want to play and he doesn't like quote boy stuff. We'll talk through how to deal |
| 0:59.2 | with gender clicks at such a young age and what boy stuff really even means. |
| 1:03.0 | Then we're going to debrief on our week in parenting with a round of everyone's favorite, |
| 1:06.6 | triumphs and fails. |
| 1:08.0 | So let's get the show on the road. |
| 1:09.2 | We're going to take a quick break and then we'll see you back here in a minute |
| 1:11.6 | for a listener question. |
| 1:12.6 | All right we're back and ready to hop into our listener question. |
| 1:22.4 | Like we said this one came to hop into our listener question. |
| 1:22.8 | Like we said, this one came from a member of our slate parenting Facebook group. |
| 1:26.6 | If you're not part of that community, you totally should be. |
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