Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Supporting Gender Expression and Exploration
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Zak, Jamilah, and Elizabeth advise a parent whose first grader got mad at her for looking up ‘girl sweaters’ online. The first grader has also previously said that they want to be a boy, not a girl. Our letter writer wants to be supportive but doesn’t know if she should go all-in or sit back and let her kid reveal who they are.
Additional resources:
Supporting My Nonbinary Teen (Part one of ‘Teen Talk’)
We also have an exciting update from the listener who couldn’t handle the seat-belt war and occasionally let them drive unbuckled.
Recommendations:
Jamilah recommends chicken with miso caramelized apples, based on this pork chop recipe.
Elizabeth recommends Dot to Dot In the Sky: Stories of the Aurora by Joan Marie Galat
Zak recommends this Naomi Fisher Twitter thread on child development
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Podcast produced by Rosemary Belson and Kristie Taiwo-Makanjuola.
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| 0:54.4 | Welcome to Momma Data Fighting. Slate's parenting podcast for Monday, December 5th, |
| 1:06.6 | the Gender Exploration Edition. I'm Zach Rosen. I make the Best Advice Show podcast. |
| 1:12.2 | I'm the dad Tanoa, who's five and Ami, who's two. We live in Detroit. |
| 1:17.0 | I'm Elizabeth Newcamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog Dutch Dutch Goose. |
| 1:21.1 | I'm the mom of three little's Henry, who's 10, Oliver, who's eight, and Teddy, who's six. |
| 1:26.0 | We live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I'm Jamila Mew, a writer, contributor to Slate's |
| 1:32.2 | care and feeding parenting column, and mom to Naima, who's nine and a half, and we live in California. |
| 1:38.9 | Today on the show, we give advice to parents who are wondering how to support their first |
| 1:43.4 | graders' exploration of gender expression. But first, we've got an update. This letter is from |
| 1:48.9 | our shell-shocked driver, Dad. If you remember, he was the one who had kids that screamed so much |
| 1:53.5 | when getting in the car that he sometimes would drive them unbuckled. Here's what he had to say. |
| 2:00.1 | To your mom and dad, I have a win to report. I'm now able to get my kids in the car and in the |
| 2:05.9 | seat with so much less fussing and screaming. I think what all the hosts said helped in |
| 2:12.1 | different ways. Elizabeth said it sounded like I had lost control, and she was so right. |
| 2:18.0 | Upon reflection, I was more suggesting to my kids to get buckled rather than telling them |
| 2:22.3 | they must get buckled. I also took exacts advice of giving my kids the choice to get in the seat |
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