Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - The "Childcare Crisis" Edition
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🗓️ 24 March 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Jamilah and Zak are joined by Julie Kohler, a writer, gender justice advocate, and host of the podcast, White Picket Fence. First they tackle a question from a listener who is trying to figure out how to connect with her partner’s kid. Then they talk with Julie about the childcare crisis, which she focused on for the latest season of her show. She explains why the US is still so far behind in terms of implementing care economy policies and what supports should be in place to make parenting more manageable. On Slate Plus, they discuss the viral “husbands in training” TikTok.
Recommendations:
Julie recommends Turning Red.
Zak recommends Chili Onion Crunch.
Jamilah recommends SpoiledChild’s S24 Rapid Recovery Hair Mask
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| 0:00.0 | This episode contains language not suitable for little ears. |
| 0:05.6 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcasts for Thursday, March 24th, the |
| 0:12.2 | Caregiving Crisis Edition. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer and contributor to Slate's care and feeding parenting column, |
| 0:19.5 | and mom to Naima, who's going to be nine |
| 0:21.8 | in five days, five more days, and we live in Los Angeles, California. I'm Zach Rosen. I am a podcast maker. |
| 0:30.5 | My other show is called The Best Advice Show. I live in Detroit with my family. My daughter, Noah, |
| 0:35.0 | is four, and Ami is one. And I'm Julie Kohler. I'm a writer, |
| 0:39.4 | gender justice advocate, and the host of White Pickett Fence Podcast. I'm also the mom to Benjamin, |
| 0:45.4 | who's seven, and we live in Washington, D.C. Thank you so much for joining us, Julie. Welcome to |
| 0:51.0 | the show. We're definitely excited to have you here, especially for today's |
| 0:54.7 | conversation. Thanks so much. It's great to be with you both. Today we're going to start off with |
| 0:59.2 | a question from a listener who's trying to navigate her new role as dad's girlfriend. She's really |
| 1:04.5 | fond of his nine-year-old, but a recent incident has her wondering if there's a thin line between |
| 1:09.8 | stepping in and overstepping. |
| 1:12.8 | Then we'll be talking with Julie about the caregiving crisis. It's become pretty obvious in the |
| 1:17.2 | past two years if it wasn't already that the U.S. doesn't have proper infrastructure in place to |
| 1:22.2 | support parents at all. The reason why is fascinating and frustrating is something you'll want to stick around and hear more about. |
| 1:29.8 | On Slate Plus, we're discussing the viral TikTok about raising boys as husbands in training. But before we |
| 1:37.0 | get to all of that, we have a couple of quick listener emails that we wanted to share. The first is from |
| 1:42.0 | mom of a Velcro kid. She wrote, Zach's advice to take a little token to |
| 1:46.6 | school is spot on. With my daughter, I went to Michaels and got one of those ID holder lanyards. |
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