Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Quitting the Olympics Edition
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🗓️ 29 July 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Elizabeth, Dan, and Jamilah discuss how we should be talking to our kids about Simone Biles’ decision to withdraw from the Olympics.
Then, they answer a question from a listener who is wondering how to deal with their bad babysitter. The problem is, the babysitter is grandma.
In Slate Plus: Is it a faux pas to request no gifts at a child’s birthday party? Or is it OK?
Recommendations:
Elizabeth recommends Draw Your World, a sketch book for kids (or adults!) that helps familiarize you with world maps.
Dan recommends the Cat Video Festival, now playing in theaters around the country.
Jamilah recommends quarantine, whether you’re sick or not.
Join us on Facebook and email us at momanddad@slate.com to ask us new questions, tell us what you thought of today’s show, and give us ideas about what we should talk about in future episodes.
Podcast produced by Morgan Flannery.
Hosts
Elizabeth Newcamp is a co-host of Mom and Dad Are Fighting. She's a traveling mother of three boys who chronicles her misadventures at Dutch, Dutch, Goose.
Dan Kois is an editor and writer at Slate. He’s the author of How to Be a Family and the co-author of The World Only Spins Forward.
Jamilah Lemieux is a writer, cultural critic, and communications strategist based in Brooklyn, New York.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is for parents. |
| 0:02.5 | Maybe not for kids. Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting. Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, July 29, the quitting the Olympics edition. I'm Dan Coice. I'm a writer at Slate. I'm the author of The Book How to Be a Family. And I'm the dad of Lyra, who's 16, and Harper, who's 13. We live in Arlington, Virginia. |
| 0:40.2 | 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. I'm Jamila Lemieux. I am a writer, contributor to Slate's care and feeding parenting column and mom to Naima, who is eight, and we live in Los Angeles. |
| 0:40.1 | On today's show, I am a writer, contributor to Slate's Karen Feeding Parenting Column and mom to Naima, who is eight, and we live in Los Angeles. |
| 0:46.7 | On today's show, we're talking about Simone Biles and her decision to step away from the women's gymnastics event at the Tokyo Olympics. |
| 0:52.8 | Parents always have a lot to say about sticking that out through things that are hard, about grit, about resilience. |
| 0:54.9 | So how do we talk to our kids about this? |
| 1:00.1 | Then we've got a question from a parent whose babysitter keeps calling with emergencies that aren't really emergencies. The problem is the babysitter is grandma. On Slate Plus, we'll be talking about |
| 1:05.5 | birthday parties and the no gift request. Is it horribly gauche or morally pure? Join us on Sleep Plus to find out. |
| 1:13.6 | But first, we're going to start the show off today with an update on Elizabeth's Dilemma from way, way back in April. |
| 1:20.4 | Elizabeth, you were trying to figure out where to send your kids to school in Colorado. |
| 1:23.8 | Let's hear an excerpt from that episode. |
| 1:25.9 | Okay, so as you know, we are moving to Colorado Springs, |
| 1:29.0 | and with that move comes a change of like our whole life. And I've always said that every time we move, |
| 1:34.9 | I'm going to evaluate our school situation based on kind of each child and the place where we are |
| 1:41.2 | and all of that. And Teddy is going to preschool. Like he needs to not be at home every day. |
| 1:46.0 | So I've found a lovely preschool for him that he's been accepted into. It is not close to the house. It is like 25 minutes from the home we're going to be in. |
| 1:54.3 | I have found two homeschool academies that would be perfect for Henry and Oliver. they're different. They meet on different days. |
| 2:02.1 | They are also like 20 minutes to 25 minutes away from the house in different directions. |
| 2:08.0 | There is a school that has a homeschool academy or like full-time school walking distance from |
| 2:13.7 | our home. So the dilemma is, do I send these kids to the perfect situation for them? |
| 2:18.9 | It's one day a week. What's a big deal? But we're driving like all around. Or do I just like do the |
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