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🗓️ 10 June 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode: Elizabeth, Dan, and Jamilah counsel a mother who is feeling guilty that she’s having a hard time bonding with her second child. She, of course, loves her son very much. But sometimes wishes her family could revert back to happier days when she had only one kid.

Then, you are hopping in the Newcamp minivan to travel from Florida to Colorado and hopefully pick up a few useful tips for the next time you decide to spend days in the car with your kids.

In Slate Plus: Of course they are talking about the Texas mom posed as her seventh-grade daughter for almost an entire day of school. How could they not? 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:

Dan recommends My Begging Chart by Keiler Roberts.

Jamilah recommends Morcheeba’s new album, Blackest Blue.

Elizabeth recommends sleeping headphones.

Join us on Facebook and email us at momanddad@slate.com to ask us new questions, tell us what you thought of today’s show, and give us ideas about what we should talk about in future episodes.

Podcast produced by Rosemary Belson.

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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.
0:10.3	Welcome to Mom and Daughter Fighting Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday, June 10th, the Cross Country Chaos Edition.
0:18.1	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 four. And we live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I'm Dan Cois. I'm a writer for Slate. I'm the author of the book How to Be a Family. I'm the dad of Lyra, who's 16, and Harper, who's 13.
0:38.1	We live in Arlington, Virginia. I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, contributor to Slate's
0:42.9	Karen Feeding Parenting Column and Mom to Naima, who is eight, and we live in Los Angeles, California.
0:48.7	The gang's all back together. Yay!
0:51.0	Yay!
0:52.8	On today's show, we're advising a mom who loves her second son but is having a really hard time bonding with him.
1:00.0	And on top of that, she feels guilty that things were wonderful with one child and now not so much.
1:06.0	And then, road trip!
1:08.0	Y'all are hopping in the third row of the new camp minivan and traveling from Navar to
1:13.7	Colorado Springs. Don't worry, we're sparing you the highway miles. And instead, we're going to
1:18.9	give you some tips that will hopefully make your next trip go a little smoother. I'm ready. I'm
1:24.6	buckled in. I got my water bottle. Mom let me have the Nintendo Switch.
1:29.5	Just wait. We'll see which lucky kid got the Nintendo Switch. And on Slate Plus, we're marveling at the Texas mom who posed as her seventh grader for a whole day of school without getting caught. Almost. We're going to kick off
1:45.9	the show with some triumphs and fails, and Dan, I heard you have a good one for us. Oh, yeah.
1:51.9	Classic Memorial Day weekend fail. So we spent our Memorial Day as we have for the last few years
1:57.6	at YMCA Camp Minicani in Hubertus, Wisconsin, the finest of all our
2:03.3	nation's YMCA camps.
2:05.2	It's the camp that I went to when I was a kid.
2:07.8	In fact, my dad went there when he was a kid.
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