Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Run Towards the Danger
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3.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Zak talks to filmmaker, author, and actor Sarah Polley about her book Run Towards the Danger. They talk about how losing a parent early influences how she parents now. How to handle guilt and why finding your parenting community is so valuable. They also discuss her boundaryless childhood and why she won’t let her kids be child actors. Finally, Sarah talks about navigating parenting while healing from a years-long injury.
Recommendations:
Jamilah recommends Lemon Perfect Lemon Water
Elizabeth recommends Pinna Podcasts
Zak recommends Sarah Polley’s films, specifically Stories We Tell.
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Podcast produced by Kristie Taiwo-Makanjuola and Rosemary Belson.
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| 0:27.7 | Tinder now. This episode contains explicit language. Welcome to mom and daughter fighting |
| 0:35.3 | sleets parenting podcasts for Monday, July 11th, the run towards the danger edition. I'm |
| 0:41.8 | Elizabeth Newcamp, I write the homeschool and family travel blog Dutch Dutch Goose. |
| 0:45.5 | I'm the mom to three little, Henry who's 10, Oliver who's 8, and Teddy who's 5. We live |
| 0:50.3 | in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I'm Zach Rosen, I make the best advice show podcast. I live |
| 0:55.2 | in Detroit with my family. My oldest Noah is 4, and my youngest Ami is 1. I'm Jameela |
| 1:00.5 | Lemieux, a writer, contributor to sleets, care and feeding parenting column, and mom to |
| 1:05.3 | Naima who is 9, and we live in Los Angeles. Well, this week we are excited to welcome |
| 1:10.5 | filmmaker, writer, and former child actor Sarah Polly to the show. Yes, Sarah Polly is |
| 1:16.7 | truly one of my favorite filmmakers. She made a way from her, take the swalts, and stories |
| 1:22.0 | we tell, which is one of my favorite documentaries ever, and she's the author of a new collection |
| 1:26.3 | I actually recommended a couple months ago. A new collection of stories called run towards |
| 1:30.8 | the danger, and that title run towards the danger is some advice that Sarah got from a doctor |
| 1:36.3 | after a fire extinguisher fell on her head, leaving her with just this terrible concussion |
| 1:41.5 | that took her years to recover from. We're going to get much deeper into that story today. |
| 1:45.9 | Oh my gosh. Well, I can't even imagine the road to recovery. Well, after a short break, |
| 1:51.9 | we are going to hear Zach's interview with Sarah Polly. |
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