Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Parents Have Taken Over My Kid’s Sport. Yikes.
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🗓️ 7 December 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: a listener writes in from the bench. Their kid is in a sports class that’s been overrun by grown-ups and siblings — on the court, doing the drills, and taking up equipment. What’s going on in this class for 3-6 year olds, and is it time to give up?
We also go over our week in triumphs and fails, and then, if you’re sticking around for Slate Plus: how can we purge the stuffie plague, and what other toys are collecting dust?
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| 0:00.0 | This episode may contain explicit language. |
| 0:06.0 | Welcome to mom and daughter fighting slate's parenting |
| 0:08.0 | podcast for Thursday, December 7th, |
| 0:11.0 | the Call a Time Out edition. I'm Elizabeth New Camp, I write the family travel blog Dutch |
| 0:16.2 | Dutch Goose. I'm the mom of Three Littles, Henry who's 11, Oliver who's 9, and Teddy |
| 0:20.8 | who's 7. We live in Tokyo, Japan. |
| 0:23.0 | I'm Sheil Mew, a writer, contributor to Sla's Karen Feeding Parents in Column, |
| 0:29.0 | and Mom Tnaima, who's 10, and we live in Los Angeles. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm Zach Rosen I host another podcast |
| 0:35.2 | It's called The Best Advice Show and I'm Dad to Noah who's 6 and Ami who's 3 |
| 0:39.6 | We live in Detroit. Well today on the show we are going to help a listener who wants help dealing with |
| 0:45.0 | other parents who are taking little kids sports way too seriously. |
| 0:49.8 | Should the parents be benched? |
| 0:51.7 | We're also going to catch up on our weekend parenting and then if |
| 0:54.1 | you're in this Late Plus Club how the heck do you purge stuffies? Can you do it |
| 0:58.1 | without the kids noticing? Do you need to concoct an elaborate disappearing scheme? |
| 1:02.4 | Do you just live with the ever growing pile? |
| 1:05.9 | Here's what you'll hear if you have Slate Plus. |
| 1:08.9 | That's one of the great experiences in parenting I think is dropping crap off at Goodwell knowing that someone might use it like I'm not throwing it in the garbage and you know having a slightly lighter load in your basement and knowing that the kids don't really care. |
| 1:23.3 | I mean, the purge is a deeply satisfying thing. |
| 1:27.8 | Goodwell here is like a challenge. |
| 1:30.8 | Like there's a number of them in Southern California but they often get so |
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