Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - The Key to Raising Athletes
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🗓️ 10 August 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Zak and Jamilah go over their week in triumphs, fails, solo parenting, and solo travel. Then we talk youth sports before hearing an interview between Elizabeth and Kirsten Jones, nationally recognized performance coach, former athlete, and author of Raising Empowered Athletes.
Then, on Slate Plus: what if friendship, not marriage, was the center of our adult social lives?
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Podcast produced by Rosemary Belson and Maura Currie.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Mom & Dadr Fighting, Slates Parenting Podcast. |
| 0:06.2 | For Thursday, August 10th, the Raising and Powered Athlete's Edition. |
| 0:11.3 | On Jamila Mu, a writer, contributor to Slates' Care and Feeding Parenting column, and |
| 0:16.0 | Mom to Naima, who's 10, and we live in Los Angeles. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Zach Rosa, and I host another podcast that's called The Best Advice Show, and I'm |
| 0:23.8 | dad to Noah, who is going to be 6th this month, and Ami, who is going to be 3 next month. |
| 0:28.9 | We live in Detroit. |
| 0:29.9 | We're going to start today's show, as we often do, by sharing our biggest parenting triumphs |
| 0:34.2 | and fails for the week. |
| 0:36.1 | And then, it's August, meaning fall youth sports at our kids' schools are underway, and |
| 0:41.4 | with it, the inevitable set of questions and complications that come along. |
| 0:46.0 | We welcome author Kristen Jones. |
| 0:48.1 | Her new book is Raising and Powered Athletes, a youth sports parenting guide for raising |
| 0:52.8 | happy, brave, and resilient kids. |
| 0:55.0 | It's a timely guide for any of us trying to be the best sports parents we can be. |
| 0:59.3 | Then, if you're sticking around for Slate Plus, we're going to unpack a piece we loved |
| 1:03.4 | in the Atlantic, asking, what if friendship, not marriage, was at the center of life? |
| 1:08.8 | Well, I always talk about this group of guy friends that I've had since kindergarten, |
| 1:14.8 | who remain among my closest friends. |
| 1:16.5 | In fact, we were on our monthly Zoom meeting last night, planning our annual trip together, |
| 1:22.6 | where we went to house and just hang out and talk and eat atables for a weekend. |
| 1:30.8 | That relationship with those friends is twice as long as my relationship with my wife. |
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