Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Solving Screentime Struggles
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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🗓️ 19 December 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: We’re diving into our overflowing mailbag! Then we’re advising a parent who is hoping to break an eight-year-old out of the screentime cycle—without making TV or games a forbidden fruit.
Recommendations:
Zak recommends Homeward Bound
Jamilah recommends Wednesday
Elizabeth recommends the MÅLA portable drawing case from Ikea
Episodes mentioned:
Surviving the Holidays With Picky Eaters
Supporting Gender Expression and Exploration
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Podcast produced by Rosemary Belson and Kristie Taiwo-Makanjuola.
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| 0:32.3 | Welcome to Mom & Dadder Fighting. Slates parenting podcasts for Monday, December 19th. |
| 0:37.0 | The Screen Time Struggles Edition. I'm Elizabeth Newcamp. I write the homeschool and family |
| 0:41.7 | travel blog, Dutch Dutch Goose, and the mom of three little centers 10 all over his eight |
| 0:46.0 | and eight and six. We live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I'm Jamila Mew, a writer, |
| 0:51.6 | contributor to Slates Care and Peeding Parenting Column and mom to Naima who's nine and a half |
| 0:56.4 | and we live in Los Angeles. I'm Zach Rosen. I host The Best Advice Show Podcast and I live in Detroit |
| 1:03.6 | with my family. My oldest Noah is five and my youngest Ami is two. |
| 1:08.2 | Today as we head into winter break, we wanted to answer a question about helping kids manage their |
| 1:12.8 | Screen Time. But first, we have a very full mailbag and wanted to share all the fun feedback we've |
| 1:18.8 | been getting. First, Jamila, you're off the hook on this one, but Zach, you and I are getting |
| 1:23.7 | a talking to you from a restaurant server for saying it was okay to let kids run around at certain |
| 1:28.9 | restaurants. I love you all dearly, but have none of you ever waited tables running in spaces where |
| 1:35.9 | servers are carrying full trays? Absolutely not. The staff will really dislike your table and they will |
| 1:42.4 | not notice or care if your kid is cute. Please, don't be those people. Signed anonymous on behalf |
| 1:50.0 | of every server ever. This is totally legit. I used to be a server myself. I'm sorry. You're |
| 1:57.6 | absolutely right. I felt appropriately like hands-lapped. Like, oh, you are right. This is an unsafe. |
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