Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - The “Estranged Grandparent” Edition
Slate Daily Feed
Slate
3.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
On this week’s episode: Zak, Jamilah, and Elizabeth answer a tricky question from a parent who doesn’t have a relationship with her father for a good reason. But now that his health is failing, she’s wondering if she should introduce him to her daughter. Then, they tackle how to make school drop-off smoother. On Slate Plus, they discuss Jessica Grose’s piece, I’ll Say It Again: There’s More Than One Way to Raise Kids Who Thrive, and dish on what philosophies they use in their own parenting.
Recommendations:
Elizabeth recommends Making a Great Exhibition by Doro Globus
Jamilah recommends filling out your manufacturer’s warranty.
Zak recommends Life on Earth by Hurray for the Riff Raff.
Bonus recommendation: Pregnant Pause.
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.
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.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This episode contains explicit language, particularly from me. Sorry for the gratuitous swears. |
| 0:08.1 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, March 17th, the estranged grandparent edition. |
| 0:16.8 | I'm Zach Rosen. I host The Best Advice Show podcast. I live in Detroit with my family. My daughter is four and my son is one. |
| 0:25.2 | 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. |
| 0:37.3 | I'm Jamil Lemieux, a writer, contributor to |
| 0:40.2 | Slate's care and feeding parenting column, and mom to Naima, who's going to be nine in like two |
| 0:45.3 | weeks, I swear. And we live in Los Angeles, California. She's felt nine for a long time. She's got |
| 0:52.1 | big nine energy. Yeah. |
| 0:54.5 | Old soul energy. |
| 0:55.4 | She feels 19. |
| 0:57.4 | Today we have a listener who has a rather tricky question. |
| 1:01.3 | She's wondering if she should introduce her kids to her ailing father. |
| 1:05.3 | This seems like a no-brainer, right? |
| 1:07.8 | Well, the catch is that she's estranged from him for a pretty good reason, but does he |
| 1:12.3 | deserve to meet his grandchild before he passes? Then, what to do when your preschooler puts up a |
| 1:18.2 | fight every morning about going to school? This listener has had enough and doesn't know if she |
| 1:24.2 | should dig in her heels too or just throw in the towel. |
| 1:30.8 | And on Slate Plus, we are discussing Jessica Gross's New York Times piece. |
| 1:34.9 | Say it again, there's more than one way to raise kids who thrive. |
| 1:39.6 | But before we get into all that, we wanted to share this email from a very special listener. |
| 1:48.9 | Dear Dan, I'm sad to hear you'll be going the way of Allison, Rebecca, and Carvel into the seemingly impenetrable world of parenting teenagers. |
| 1:57.2 | Just make sure you occasionally drop by to provide us with nuggets on how your girls are doing, pre-cleared with them, of course, as they enter adulthood. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Slate, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Slate and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.