Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - No, You Can’t Marry Your Mom
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🗓️ 23 January 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Elizabeth, Jamilah, and Zak answer a question about a princess-obsessed little girl who keeps asking if she can marry her mom. The mom finds it sweet but doesn’t know how to respond.
Recommendations:
Jamilah: Vintage Contemporaries by Dan Kois
Elizabeth: Help Your Kids with Adolescents by DK.
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever thought, ugh, this water is too wet? |
| 0:04.4 | Or this beach is too sandy. |
| 0:06.6 | My name is Christine. |
| 0:07.8 | And my name is Sandy. |
| 0:09.2 | And where the host of Beach to Sandy water to wet. |
| 0:11.4 | A podcast where we do dramatic readings of the most wild and off the wall reviews on |
| 0:15.3 | the internet. |
| 0:16.3 | We find the funniest, real reviews about everything from Vegas weddings, matchmaking services |
| 0:21.4 | and trader joes, to caves, toddler beds, and spirit Halloween. |
| 0:25.6 | You won't believe the things that people think absolutely must be set on the internet. |
| 0:29.2 | How else would everyone know that some caves don't have Wi-Fi? |
| 0:32.0 | We hear about the good, the bad, and that one time spirit Halloween sent someone a dildo |
| 0:36.0 | instead of a Halloween costume. |
| 0:37.8 | And believe it or not, we got to the bottom of it. |
| 0:40.5 | Join us every Wednesday wherever you listen to your podcasts. |
| 0:43.4 | Beach to Sandy water to wet is brought to you by the Forever Dog Podcast Network. |
| 0:49.9 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are fighting Slate's parenting podcasts for Monday, January 23rd. |
| 0:55.0 | But no, you can't marry your mom, addition. |
| 0:58.2 | I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. |
| 0:59.2 | I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch Goose. |
| 1:02.0 | I'm the mom to three little, Henry, who's 10, Oliver, who's 8, and Teddy, who's 6. |
| 1:06.2 | We live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
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