Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Should I Allow Compliments About How My Kid Looks?
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Elizabeth Newcamp, Zak Rosen, and Jamilah Lemieux answer a question that someone actually posed to Jamilah on Instagram… about whether it’s okay to entertain compliments about your kid’s appearance. A facilitator at school has suggested redirecting to character compliments when this toddler — the only Black kid in her class — is praised for her appearance. But is there place for just calling a cute kid a cute kid?
We’ll also do a round of recommendations. And then, in the Slate Plus realm, we’re talking about a piece in NYTMag… asserting that the teen subculture as we knew it is dead. In its place? The *~ aesthetic ~*
Recommendations:
Jamilah recommends: Get a 64 oz water jug
Zak recommends: Art Hub For Kids YouTube Channel
Elizabeth recommends: UV Detection Stickers for Sunscreen (link to uVify)
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Podcast produced by Maura Currie.
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| 0:00.0 | If you could get rid of everything bad about banks and build one from scratch, |
| 0:04.3 | you'd build a different kind of bank. |
| 0:06.4 | One that has actual people you can talk to 24-7, not robots, |
| 0:11.2 | doesn't invest in fossil fuels, |
| 0:13.2 | charges no extra fees for spending abroad, |
| 0:15.7 | and definitely doesn't close before you finish work. |
| 0:18.2 | You'd build tools to help manage bills, |
| 0:20.5 | teach kids good money habits, |
| 0:22.3 | and give interest on personal and joint accounts. |
| 0:25.8 | So what would that look like? |
| 0:27.8 | Starling Bank, the Bank Built for you. |
| 0:30.9 | This episode may contain explicit language. |
| 0:34.0 | Welcome to Karen Feeding, the show where we parent together. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm Jamila Mu, a writer, contributor to Slate's Carer |
| 0:44.1 | Beating Parenting in Column, and Mona Naima, who's almost 11, and we live in |
| 0:48.9 | Los Angeles. |
| 0:49.9 | I'm Elizabeth New Camp. |
| 0:51.3 | I write the Family Travel blog Dutch, Dutch Goose. I'm the mom of three |
| 0:54.2 | little's Henry who's 11, Oliver who's 9, and Teddy who 7. We live in Tokyo Japan. |
| 0:58.9 | I'm Zachary Rosen. I am the host of another podcast that's called The Best Advice Show and I'm |
| 1:04.4 | Dad to Noah, who's six, and Ami who's three. We live in Detroit. |
| 1:08.0 | Today on the show, we're answering a question about whether it's okay to accept compliments about our children's appearances. |
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