Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Run Towards the Danger
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3.8 • 546 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2022
⏱️ 27 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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| 0:00.0 | This episode contains explicit language. |
| 0:04.8 | Welcome to Mom and Daughter Fighting Slate's Parenting Podcast for Monday, July 11th, the Run Towards the Danger edition. |
| 0:12.4 | I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog Dutch Dutch Goose. |
| 0:16.4 | I'm the mom to three littles, Henry who's 10, Oliver who's 8, and Teddy who's 5. |
| 0:20.8 | We live in |
| 0:21.4 | Colorado Springs, Colorado. I'm Zach Rosen. I make the Best Advice Show podcast. I live in Detroit |
| 0:26.6 | with my family. My oldest Noah is four, and my youngest ami is one. I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, |
| 0:32.8 | contributor to Slate's care and feeding parenting column, and mom to Naima, who is nine, and we live in Los Angeles. |
| 0:38.8 | Well, this week, we are excited to welcome filmmaker, writer, and former child actor, Sarah Polly to the show. |
| 0:45.9 | Yes, Sarah Polly is truly one of my favorite filmmakers. |
| 0:49.4 | She made away from her, Take This Waltz, and stories we tell, which is one of my favorite documentaries |
| 0:54.8 | ever. And she's the author of a new collection I actually recommended a couple months ago. |
| 0:59.8 | A new collection of stories called Run Towards the Danger. And that title, Run Towards the Danger, |
| 1:05.0 | is some advice that Sarah got from a doctor after a fire extinguisher fell on her head, |
| 1:10.4 | leaving her with just this terrible |
| 1:11.9 | concussion that took her years to recover from. We're going to get much deeper into that story |
| 1:16.2 | today. Oh my gosh. Well, I can't even imagine the road to recovery. Well, after a short break, |
| 1:22.6 | we are going to hear Zach's interview with Sarah Polly. |
| 1:32.7 | Okay, we are going to get to our talk with Sarah Polly now. |
| 1:36.6 | Before she became a filmmaker and a writer, she was an actress. |
| 1:41.8 | When she was nine, she starred as Ramona Quimby in the TV series based on the Beverly Cleary novels, And she was the star of a Terry Gilliam movie |
| 1:45.3 | when she was around that same age, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. As a teenager, she was in Go. |
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