Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Self-Expression-ish Edition
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🗓️ 5 August 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Jamilah, Elizabeth, and guest host Courtney Martin discuss triumphs and fails, co-housing and Courtney’s new book, Learning in Public: Lessons for a Racially Divided America from My Daughter's School.
Then they answer a question from a listener who is wondering how to help her child adapt to wearing a uniform at school while still encouraging self-expression. Jamilah suggested to mix things up by adding in fun ties, like this one she dressed her daughter in a few years ago.
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Recommendations:
Jamilah recommends online vintage shopping. And if you’re worried about sizing, pay attention to the fabric! Stretch is key.
Elizabeth recommends pelvic floor PT to help with pelvic weakness. One resource she mentioned is this instagram page.
Courtney recommends subscribing to the Substack Newsletter by Sarah Wheeler called Momspreading.
You can read Courtney’s piece in The Nation here. Jamilah’s piece in The Nation can be found here.
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.
Jamilah Lemieux is a writer, cultural critic, and communications strategist based in Brooklyn, New York.
Courtney Martin is an author and political activist. She’s the author of four books, including Learning in Public and The New Better Off. You can find out more about her at her website: https://www.courtneyemartin.com
Social
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@courtwrites on Twitter https://twitter.com/courtwrites
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.3 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, August 50, |
| 0:09.9 | self-expression-ish edition. |
| 0:12.7 | I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, contributor to Slate's Karen Feeding Parenting column, |
| 0:17.0 | and Mom to Naima, who is eight, and we live in Los Angeles, California. |
| 0:37.8 | I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch, Dutch, Goose, and I'm the mom to three little, Henry, who's nine, Oliver, who's seven, and Teddy who's four. And we live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I'm Courtney Martin, and I grew up in Colorado Springs, which is, I'm just so excited for the Sea Springs Connection, does not happen very often. |
| 0:40.4 | I'm the author of a substack newsletter called Examined Family in a new book called Learning in |
| 0:45.1 | Public. |
| 0:45.9 | I'm a mom to Maya, who is seven, and Stella, who is five, and we live in Oakland, California. |
| 0:51.3 | And Courtney, I, sorry, I noticed that we actually both have cargo bikes, too. |
| 0:56.5 | You wrote about it, I think, in the nation. |
| 0:59.2 | White mama's in our cargo bikes. |
| 1:02.7 | It's a thing. |
| 1:04.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:05.1 | It is a thing. |
| 1:06.0 | And somewhere. |
| 1:06.9 | Jamila has a cool car. |
| 1:08.2 | There's a black mom driving behind them. |
| 1:15.1 | Terrified for your lives, praying for your children. |
| 1:17.6 | Get your child. |
| 1:19.8 | Get your kid out of the street. |
| 1:21.6 | Exactly. |
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