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🗓️ 27 November 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Zak, Jamilah and Elizabeth help a listener who’s actually written in to us before — but this time, he needs help with his brawling toddler. How can parents help their littler kids simmer down – and older kids defend themselves – before anyone gets hurt?
We’ll also share some of the letters and voicemails that listeners have sent in recently. And we’re doing a round of recommendations, with a twist: in the spirit of Giving Tuesday, we’re sharing charities that we love to support.
Zak recommends: Standing Together
Elizabeth recommends: Conservation Fund (or, sign up for a beach/river/creek clean up)
Jamilah recommends: Girls for Gender Equity
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Podcast produced by Maura Currie and Rosemary Belson.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode may contain explicit language. |
| 0:06.0 | Welcome to mom and dad are fighting. |
| 0:07.6 | Sla's Parenting Podcast for Monday, November 27th, |
| 0:11.3 | the Toddler Take Down edition. I'm Jamila |
| 0:14.4 | Lemieu, a writer, contributor to Slates Can Feeding Parenting Column, and |
| 0:18.6 | Mom to Naima, who's 10 and we live in Los Angeles. I'm Zach Rosen. I make another podcast it's called the Best Advice Show and I'm |
| 0:26.2 | Dad to Noah who's six and Ami who's three we live in Detroit I'm Elizabeth |
| 0:30.9 | New Camp I write the homeschool and family travel blog Dutch Dutch Dutch Goose I'm Elizabeth New Camp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog Dutch |
| 0:34.3 | Guse. I'm the mom of three little's Henry his 11 Oliver who's 9 and Teddy who's 7. |
| 0:38.8 | We live in Tokyo Japan. On today's show we have a very interesting question about a three-year-old who is a |
| 0:46.0 | brawler. |
| 0:47.0 | He hits his older brother, he hits his mom, he hits his dad. |
| 0:51.6 | They're trying to get him to hang up his gloves so to speak before |
| 0:54.6 | someone gets hurt but so far no dice. We've got some suggestions to help curb |
| 0:59.9 | the behavior. Then we'll move on to a round of recommendations and we'll close out the |
| 1:04.7 | show with a few letters from you. See you back in a moment. |
| 1:08.0 | We're back and ready for today's listener question, which actually came from a listener who sent in one of the most talked about questions last year. |
| 1:18.0 | We'll link to the episode in the show notes. |
| 1:20.0 | But all that to say, if you've ever written into the show, just know you can send as many letters as you want. You're not restricted to just one. |
| 1:28.0 | Okay, without any further ado, here's the question. |
| 1:32.0 | Dear mom and dad, my three-year-old is a brawler, he's quick to hit, and much like a |
| 1:36.1 | Rottweiler he rarely backs down and only hits harder, like when he gets in the |
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