Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Teaching Kids to Lie
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Elizabeth, Jamilah, and Zak first answer a question about teaching a blunt kid to hold their tongue, for the sake of a friendship. Then they tackle a question about pets being underfoot now that there is a new baby in the house.
Recommendations:
Jamilah recommends Jared from Subway: Catching a Monster
Zak recommends Have I Ever Told You? By Shani King
Elizabeth recommends SQUILT Music
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| 0:00.0 | At Barclays we're here for the land of football, we're here for the Premier League and the Barclays |
| 0:09.4 | Women's Super League. We're here for the football charts for giving more girls the charts. |
| 0:17.6 | We're here for the grassroots and all the muddy boots. From schools to stadiums, we're here for it all. |
| 0:25.3 | Barclays here for the land of football. This episode contains explicit language. |
| 0:35.4 | Welcome to Mom & Dad are fighting Slate's parenting podcasts for Monday March 20th, |
| 0:40.1 | the Too Much Truth edition. I'm Elizabeth Newcamp, I write the homeschool and family travel blog |
| 0:45.3 | Dutch Dutch Goose. I'm the mom of three little, Henry Huston, Oliver Husset, and Teddy Husset. |
| 0:50.5 | We live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I'm Zach Rosen, I make the best advice show podcast, |
| 0:56.8 | and I'm the dad to Noah, who's five, and Ami, who's two. We live in Detroit. |
| 1:02.1 | I'm Jamila Mew, a writer, contributor to Slate's care and feeding parenting column, |
| 1:07.1 | and mom to Naima, who is nearly 10, and we live in Los Angeles. Today we've got a jam-packed |
| 1:13.3 | episode. We're going to be tackling two questions. First, we've got a friendship purple, |
| 1:18.2 | stemming from a dose of the truth instead of a white lie. Then we've got a question about |
| 1:23.1 | dogs being underfoot now that there's a baby in the picture. We'll then wrap it up with a round |
| 1:28.0 | of recommendations. Okay, let's kick it off with our first listener question. |
| 1:33.5 | Dear Mom & Dad, I've got a kid friendship question. My seven-year-old hurt a friend's feelings |
| 1:38.7 | by being honest about something most adults would tell a white lie about. No cruel words were used, |
| 1:43.8 | just stating facts. I got a text about it from the child's parents because of the hurt feelings. |
| 1:49.0 | I was apologetic and talked to my kid about how that made her friend feel. |
| 1:52.8 | My question has two parts. First, do you have any tips for explaining how honesty can be hurtful? |
| 1:58.2 | Should I encourage her to tell white lies? Second, is this normal to reach out to another parent |
| 2:03.2 | about what I would consider a minor friendship issue? My parents were immigrants and never got involved |
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