Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - The “How Rude!" Edition
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🗓️ 12 May 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Elizabeth and Zak are joined by Amber O’Neal Johnston, author of A Place to Belong and she blogs at heritagemom.com. Together they tackle a question from a nanny who is fed up with preteen attitude. The boy she looks after takes his bad moods out on everyone around him, including her. She’s wondering if she can help him change his behavior or if she should find another place to work.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to Mom & Dadder Fighting Slates Parenting Podcasts for Thursday, May 12th, the How Rude Edition. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Elizabeth Newkamp, I write the homeschool and family travel blog Dutch Dutch Goose. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm the mom to three littles, Henry who's ten, Oliver who's eight today, yay Oliver! |
| 0:22.0 | Oh! |
| 0:22.5 | And Teddy who's five. |
| 0:24.0 | We live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm Zach Rosen, I live in Detroit, Michigan, where I make the best advice show podcast. |
| 0:33.0 | My daughter is four, her name is Noah, and my son Ami is one. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm Amber O'Neal Johnston, and I blog at HeritageMom.com, and I wrote the book a place to belong. |
| 0:45.0 | My kiddos are 12, 10, 8, and 6, Nina Sasha Beckett and Brooks, and we live outside of Atlanta, Georgia. |
| 0:54.0 | And Amber, I'm just so excited to have you on the show this week. |
| 0:58.0 | Welcome. |
| 0:59.0 | Welcome. |
| 1:00.0 | So I have to tell a funny story that Amber and I are like Instagram friends. |
| 1:03.0 | She was one of the first people I found when I was kind of exploring homeschooling, and then I had messaged her a couple times about things on Instagram, and she's always wonderfully gracious. |
| 1:12.0 | And then I sent her the weirdest message because I was really panicking before I'd gone to bed about some homeschool stuff, and she was in my dream. |
| 1:22.0 | And I woke up and I felt I was like, I have to tell her, but she was like in this large lecture hall and came up and said, you're doing a great job. |
| 1:29.0 | Keep going like in my dream. |
| 1:30.0 | And I messaged her and I was like, you're probably gonna block me now. |
| 1:34.0 | Not at all. |
| 1:35.0 | I was like, that's pretty cool. I hope I have my hair done. |
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