Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - The “I *Swear* It’s a Problem" Edition
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🗓️ 28 April 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Elizabeth and Zak tackle a tricky question about a kid who has recently harnessed the power of swear words. He is weaponizing his words with an intent to hurt those around him and our listener has no idea what to do. Elizabeth and Zak offer up some practical advice for dealing with the in-the-moment anger, curbing the foul language, and ultimately making amends.
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| 0:27.7 | Tinder now. This episode contains explicit language starting now. Welcome to Mom and |
| 0:35.5 | Data Fighting. Slates Parenting Podcasts for Thursday, April 28th. The I swear it's |
| 0:41.4 | a fucking problem addition. I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel |
| 0:46.0 | blog Dutch Dutch Goose. I'm the mom to three little, Henry who's ten, Oliver who's seven, |
| 0:50.9 | and Teddy who's five. And we live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
| 0:54.8 | I'm Zach Rosen. I make the best advice show podcast, and I live in Detroit with my family. |
| 1:00.2 | My kids are Noah, who's four, and Ami, who's one? |
| 1:04.0 | Well, today on the show we've got an eight-year-old who has harnessed the power of swear words |
| 1:09.5 | and it is causing family chaos. Then on Slate Plus, we're going to discuss all things |
| 1:15.6 | hobbies. Here's a sneak peek of what you'll hear if you have Slate Plus. |
| 1:20.9 | If I can just like fit in like one New Yorker article, I feel like I'm on vacation because |
| 1:25.8 | I'm inevitably nine times out of ten getting interrupted by one of my kids asking me for |
| 1:31.6 | something. So I love that you included reading and movies because I think there are people |
| 1:36.4 | who do that, but think it's like that's like not enough. If you want a weekly bonus segment |
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