Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Separation Made Simple(ish)
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🗓️ 27 October 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Zak and Jamilah are joined by Fiona Kong, creator of Home Sweet Homes: A Journal & Planner for Co-parents & Child. They answer a question from a mom who is beginning the process of separating from her husband. She wants to know how she can make the transition to living between houses as easy as possible for her son.
Then on Slate Plus, they discuss the adorable Halloween costumes their kids picked for this year.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Mom & Dadr Fighting, Slaced Parenting Podcast. |
| 0:05.9 | For Thursday, October 27th, the Separation Made Simple Edition. |
| 0:10.9 | I'm Jamila Amu, a writer, contributor to Slaced Parent Beating Parenting column, and |
| 0:16.3 | Mom Tanayima, who is nine, and we live in Los Angeles. |
| 0:19.9 | I'm Zach Rosen. |
| 0:20.9 | I make another podcast that's called The Best Advice Show, and I live in Detroit with |
| 0:24.8 | my family. |
| 0:25.8 | My oldest Noah is five, and my youngest Ami is two. |
| 0:29.4 | I'm Fiona Kong, founder of the Home Sweet Home Journal for Co-Parenting Families. |
| 0:34.4 | My son is named Emil. |
| 0:36.1 | He's six years old, and we live in Los Angeles. |
| 0:38.3 | Well, Fiona, thank you so much for joining us, and we're so excited to have you and just |
| 0:45.7 | selfishly as a co-parenting parent. |
| 0:47.5 | I'm always excited to have another co-parenting parent on the show. |
| 0:50.4 | Same here. |
| 0:51.4 | I'm excited for this conversation. |
| 0:53.0 | Well, today on the show, we've got a question from a listener at the beginning of her |
| 0:57.2 | separation journey. |
| 0:58.9 | She wants to make sure everything goes as smoothly as possible for her five-year-old son, and |
| 1:03.7 | we're going to give her some advice about raising a child across two households. |
| 1:09.9 | Then on Slate Plus, we're going to check in on our Halloween plans. |
| 1:13.7 | Here's what you'll hear if you have Slate Plus. |
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