Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - The ‘Mind Your ‘P’s and ‘V’s’ Edition
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🗓️ 7 April 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Jamilah, Zak, and Elizabeth tackle body boundaries. Our listener has two little kids who are pretty comfortable doing things like sharing a bath or getting changed in the same vicinity. But something happened the other morning that has her worried. How can she teach consent and autonomy without creating any body shame?
On Slate Plus, they debate if parenting actually makes them happy. The article they discussed is called What Becoming a Parent Really Does to Your Happiness by Paul Bloom.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.3 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcasts for Thursday, April 7th, the Mine Your P's and V's edition. |
| 0:12.5 | I'm Jamila Amu, a writer, contributor to Slate's Karen Feeding Parenting Column and Mom to Naima, |
| 0:17.9 | who is nine, and we live in Los Angeles, California. |
| 0:21.6 | I'm Zach Rosen. I host The Best Advice Show podcast, and I live with my family in Detroit. |
| 0:27.2 | Noah is four, and Ami is one. |
| 0:29.6 | I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch, Dutch, Goose, |
| 0:34.0 | and I'm the mom to three littles, Henry, whose birthday is today on Thursday, and he is 10, and Oliver, who's seven, and Teddy, |
| 0:42.0 | who's five, and we live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
| 0:45.9 | Happy birthday. |
| 0:47.0 | I know. |
| 0:47.9 | 10, guys. |
| 0:48.8 | Birthday. |
| 0:49.7 | Double digits. |
| 0:51.9 | Amazing. |
| 0:52.6 | That's big. |
| 0:53.4 | I feel old. |
| 0:53.9 | That's huge. It is old. It's huge. |
| 0:55.5 | Today on the show, we're talking body boundaries. |
| 0:58.9 | How do you normalize body positivity while also teaching little ones about autonomy and consent? |
| 1:04.5 | Our listener has two little ones and is already running into some problems. |
| 1:08.9 | Then on Slate Plus, how does parenthood affect happiness? |
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