Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - The “Cotillion Conundrum” Edition
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🗓️ 10 February 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Jamilah, Zak, and Elizabeth dive into the complicated world of cotillions. A listener is wondering if she should enroll her biracial daughter if all of her friends are participating. Kristen Richardson, author of The Season: A Social History of the Debutante, joins to give some wonderful context and advice. They then tackle a question about sending a toddler to summer camp. On Slate Plus, they’re daydreaming about family vacations. Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on MADAF each week, and no ads. Sign up now at slate.com/momanddadplus to listen and support our work.
Recommendations:
Zak recommends one piece SORRY!
Elizabeth recommends the L.L.Bean Sonic Snow Tube.
Jamilah recommends Tinder Swindler.
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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. |
| 0:06.6 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcasts for Thursday, February 10th, the |
| 0:12.0 | Catillion Conundrum Edition. I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, contributor to Slate's Karen Feeding |
| 0:17.8 | parenting column, and Mom to Naima, who is nearly nine, |
| 0:21.0 | 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 who's five. And we live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. And I'm Zach Rosen. I host the podcast, The Best Advice |
| 0:39.1 | Show, and I am the dad to Noah and Ami. Noah is four, Ami is one, and we live in Detroit. |
| 0:46.4 | On today's show, we are diving into the tangled world of Catillians. Yes, the etiquette classes |
| 0:53.3 | and culminating presentation have a rather complicated history, |
| 0:57.5 | but they're also very much still alive and well in parts of the country. We have a listener |
| 1:02.6 | who moved to one of those areas and wants to know if this is the right move for her children. |
| 1:08.0 | Kristen Richardson, author of The Season, a social history of the debutante, will join |
| 1:12.6 | us to give some context and advice. Then, we're jumping from ballrooms to bonfires. Should you |
| 1:18.9 | send your toddler to summer camp? Hmm. And on Slate Plus, we're dreaming about family travel. Come take a |
| 1:26.6 | mental vacation with us. |
| 1:28.7 | But first, Zach has been on a quest to slowly move his daughter's musical taste away from toddler tunes. |
| 1:35.8 | And listeners have a lot to say about the topic. |
| 1:38.7 | Zach, can you give us an update? |
| 1:41.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:41.7 | So, first of all, listeners, it means so much that you're invested in this along with me, |
| 1:46.8 | and you have such great advice. |
| 1:48.9 | Reshma recommends the movie Sing and the sequel Sing 2, which features popular covers of |
| 1:55.2 | songs by U2 and Coldplay and Whitney Houston, among others. |
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