Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - The “Bah Humbug” Edition
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🗓️ 16 December 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Elizabeth, Jamilah, and Zak help a parent who feels conflicted about traveling to see family during the holidays. They love their relatives and rarely see them, but they are exhausted and not so excited to make the trek this year. Should they still go? Then, a listener’s toddler is afraid of everything. How can they validate their child’s experience while helping them navigate a sometimes scary world?
On Slate Plus, the hosts talk about Zak’s quarantine ennui. He’s been marooned at home for days and days. Will this pandemic ever end? Commiseration ensues.
Recommendations:
Zak recommends playing catch with balloons (rather than heavier balls) with your littles
Jamilah recommends buying a synthetic Christmas tree
Elizabeth recommends Tiny Schoolhouse Calendars
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Podcast produced by Zak Rosen.
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| 0:00.0 | Just to give you a heads up, one of us is bound to say something not suitable for little ears. |
| 0:04.8 | It is, after all, the one hour a day I spend away from my children. |
| 0:12.2 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, December 16th, the Bah Humbug Edition. |
| 0:19.4 | I'm Jamila Lemieux, writer, a contributor to Slate's care and feeding parenting column, and mom to Naima, who is eight and a half, and then some, and we live in Los Angeles, California. I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch, Dutch goose. I'm the mom to three littles, Henry who's nine, Oliver who's seven, and Teddy |
| 0:37.7 | who's five. And we live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. And I'm Zach Rosen. I host The Best |
| 0:43.3 | Advice Show. It's a really short podcast in which I feature your best advice. And I live in |
| 0:47.7 | Detroit with my daughter, Noah. She's four, and Ami is one. On today's show, we address a listener |
| 0:54.0 | who loves staying long-distance family over the holidays, |
| 0:56.8 | but it's completely overwhelmed with all the stuff that comes with the visit. |
| 1:01.1 | How can they manage the holiday blues and keep everyone else from melting down? |
| 1:05.1 | And then we tackle the age-old problem of monsters in the closet. |
| 1:11.1 | What to do when you've tried everything, everything, and your kid is still scared. |
| 1:16.6 | On Slate Plus, we're talking COVID lockdowns with kids. |
| 1:20.1 | Zach will update us on his current quarantine and we'll lament how despite vaccines and |
| 1:25.8 | masks and distancing and all that we've done, we're still here. |
| 1:31.2 | First, it seems a lot of you all had a lot to say about our teenage privacy conversation last week, |
| 1:36.9 | and we wanted to share one of the many emails that we got with you. |
| 1:40.7 | Take it away, Zach. |
| 1:43.1 | I'm writing in response to the letter writer who asked if it was |
| 1:45.9 | okay to snoop on her 16-year-old daughter's phone. While I agree that teenagers are not adults, |
| 1:51.2 | I teach classes on adolescent development, and a common theme in the research is the importance |
| 1:55.3 | of how parents negotiate teens' growing needs for privacy and autonomy for their later adjustment. |
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