Hey everyone. Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, September 2nd, the Playday Etiquette Edition. I'm Aiman Ismail. I am also very, very tired because I have a two-month-old. His name is Musa.

And he's the cutest. I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog Dutch Dutch Goose. And I'm the mom to three littles, Henry, who's nine, Oliver, who's seven, and Teddy who's four. And we live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. And Jamila's out today. But we're going to do it justice, I promise. Unless we get interrupted by one of our babies and then we have to run around,

then this can be a whole ordeal, then we'll fix it in editing, and whatever.

So on today's show, we're answering a listener question from a parent who has some questions on Playday etiquette.

What is proper Playday etiquette, and what do you do when other parents don't follow it?

Then we get some advice to a listener who is trying to navigate differing religious

beliefs of another family. How can she teach her 12-year-old son to be more accepting of

other people's views when he's quite set in his own? On Slate Plus, we're talking about the

concept of free-range children. What are free-range children, and how do we feel about letting our children gain certain forms of independence at a younger age? But first, we're going to kick off the show with some triumphs and fails. Elizabeth, do you have any triumphs or fails this week? Yeah, so I'm going to claim a triumph. Nice. At the end, a triumph. I mean, it's sort of a fail that we turn into a triumph, but aren't all great triumphs. Yeah. Totally understandable. So over the summer, one of the things on my list I had to do with the kids was that I really wanted to take them to a baseball game. I love watching baseball, and we just hadn't really brought the kids. And because

we sort of had these formidable years in the Netherlands, they're confused about a lot of sports.

Like one time at gymnastics, Henry was asked who his favorite football team was, and he said

we root for the Netherlands because he thought they meant soccer. So when we got here, I thought, well, we'll go to a Colorado Rockies game.

Great.

Then I discovered that tickets are like a million dollars.

And there's five of us, and I wanted us all to go.

But Colorado Springs has a baseball team that's like below minor league.

It's called Premier League.

And it's like associated with the MLB. I don't know

how familiar you guys are with baseball. But we kept saying they have these military appreciation

nights where the tickets are like basically free. Like they're very cheap. I thought this is great.

We'll go. If the kids hated, who cares. But we kept kind of like putting it off like something

else would come up or the weather would be bad so

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