Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Putting Nighttime Worries to Bed
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🗓️ 2 February 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Jamilah, Zak, and Elizabeth help a little girl who has been having racing thoughts at bedtime. She’s gone through a lot of change recently and her step-mom is trying to help her process her anxieties, which tend to present themselves as she’s trying to fall asleep.
Resources mentioned:
Little Stories for Tiny People
Help Your Dragon Deal With Anxiety
Then on Slate Plus: they discuss the recent discourse around Marie Kondo “kind of giving up” on tidying now that she has three children.
Also, catch Jamilah on Slate's ICYMI: Has the Internet Made Parenting Easier?
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| 0:31.0 | Welcome to Mom & Dadr Fighting. |
| 0:33.0 | Slates Parenting Podcast. |
| 0:35.0 | For Thursday, February 2nd, the putting nighttime worries to bed edition. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, contributor to Slates' care-beating parenting column |
| 0:45.0 | and Mom Tanayima, who is 9 and 3 quarters and we live in Los Angeles. |
| 0:50.0 | I'm Zach Rosen. I make another show. It's called The Best Advice Show |
| 0:54.0 | and I am Dad Tanoa, who is 5 and a half and Ami, who's 2 and a half. |
| 0:59.0 | We live in Detroit. |
| 1:01.0 | I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog Dutch Dutch Goose. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm the mom of 3 Little Centri, who's 10, Oliver, who's 8 and Teddy, who's 6. |
| 1:09.0 | We live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
| 1:12.0 | Today on the show we have a 6 year old who is having trouble sleeping |
| 1:16.0 | because her head is too full of worries. Girl, me too. |
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