Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - The “Changing The Children’s Music Game” Edition
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🗓️ 25 April 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Elizabeth, Jamilah, and Zak expose the mini-monsters that parents accidentally create. They have some very fun—very scary—listener submissions. But honestly, who doesn’t need a snack for every car ride?
Then Zak interviews comedian, dad, and podcaster Chris Garcia about his new show Finding Raffi. They talk about how Raffi captured kids’ ears and hearts, his lasting legacy, and how he’s changing parenting philosophies.
Recommendations
Zak recommends finding little moments of joy like making a game out of chucking garbage into the can.
Jamilah recommends The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.
Elizabeth recommends the Ologies podcast
And, a bonus recommendation from Zak: His conversation with Rebecca Lavoie on The Best Advice Show podcast about knowing and communicating your weaknesses at work
Resources
Finding Raffi by Chris Garcia
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| 0:00.0 | This episode contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.5 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are fighting Slate's parenting podcast for Monday, April 25th, |
| 0:10.7 | that changing the children's music game edition. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Elizabeth Newcamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch Goose. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm the mom to three littles, Henry Huss 10, Oliver Huss 7, and Teddy Huss 5. |
| 0:22.5 | We live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
| 0:24.5 | I'm Zach Rosen. I host the Best Advice Show podcast. |
| 0:28.0 | I live in Detroit with my family. My daughter Noah is four, and my son Ami is one. |
| 0:32.5 | My name is Jameela Lemieux. I'm a writer, contributor to Slate's care and feeding parenting column. |
| 0:37.5 | And mom, tonight Ema, who is nine, and we live in Los Angeles. |
| 0:41.0 | Today on the show, Zach is talking with comedian, dad, and podcasting extraordinaire Chris Garcia |
| 0:47.0 | about his new show Finding Rafi. |
| 0:49.5 | In the sequel to Finding Fred, the podcast about Mr. Rogers hosted by the one and only Carvelle Wallace. |
| 0:55.5 | This new season is about the world-renowned children's musicians legacy and his impact on the music industry and children's ears and hearts. |
| 1:04.0 | But before we get into that, we were thrilled by a recent post on Facebook asking how we've created our own mini monsters. |
| 1:12.5 | So many of you reached out to share. Here are a few of our favorites. |
| 1:17.0 | My daughter was fuzzy one day in the car, and I, of course, started handing her tick-tax and goldfish to keep her quiet. |
| 1:26.5 | Now she has trained me to provide her snacks every time we get in the car. |
| 1:35.0 | This is Casey. I started the monster thread, and I'm super happy to hear that you are interested. |
| 1:42.0 | I need a snack we're getting in the car. |
| 1:44.0 | I think we've all been on this one, right? Please tell me, I mean, this is definitely happened to us. |
| 1:49.0 | I feel like I'm like that too, like I need a snack when I drive now. |
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