Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - The Mortified Mom Edition
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🗓️ 15 July 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Jamilah, Elizabeth, and Isaac Butler answer a letter from a concerned mother who worries that she’s not able to fill the void of her step-daughter's biological mother.
Then, they share some advice for a listener whose son is having trouble reacting appropriately to gifts he doesn’t like.
In Slate Plus: 14-year-old Zaila Avant-garde wins the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee.
Recommendations:
Elizabeth recommends the Brickit App: an app that helps you find your missing Lego pieces.
Jamilah’s daughter Naima recommends cooking turkey legs for your kids!
Isaac recommends reading A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself, by Peter Ho Davies.
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 Morgan Flannery.
Hosts
Elizabeth Newcamp is a co-host of Mom and Dad Are Fighting. She's a traveling mother of three boys who chronicles her misadventures at Dutch, Dutch, Goose.
Jamilah Lemieux is a writer, cultural critic, and communications strategist based in Brooklyn, New York.
Isaac Butler is a writer, theater director and host of Slate’s podcast Working. He’s the author of The Method and the co-author of The World Only Spins Forward.
Social
@JamilahLemieux on Twitter https://twitter.com/JamilahLemieux
@dutchdutchgoose on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/dutchdutchgoose/
@parabasis on Twitter https://twitter.com/IsaacButler
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, July 15th, the Mortified Mom Edition. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, contributor to Slate's Karen Feeding Parenting column, and Mom to Naima, who is eight, and we live in Los Angeles, California. |
| 0:19.5 | Hi, my name is Isaac Butler. |
| 0:21.5 | I am, among other things, the co-host of Slate's Working Podcast and a writer and a father to |
| 0:28.7 | Iris Age 6, and I live in Brooklyn, New York. |
| 0:32.6 | I'm Elizabeth New Camp. |
| 0:33.9 | I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch, Dutch goose. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm the mom to three |
| 0:38.0 | little's, Henry, who's nine, Oliver, who's seven, and Teddy who's four. And we live in Colorado Springs, |
| 0:44.1 | Colorado. Hi, I'm 91, New Giles, and I am eight, and I'm daughter to Jamila, |
| 0:52.7 | and we live in Los Angeles, California. |
| 0:57.5 | Well, Isaac, thank you so much for joining us this week and filling in for Dan. |
| 1:02.6 | And Naima, thank you for asking me about 15 minutes before we started recording if you could join the show this week. |
| 1:08.9 | So let's see how this goes. |
| 1:10.7 | Naima, we're always excited to have you with us. Are you excited to be with us too, Naima? |
| 1:14.9 | Yeah. Great. So on today's show, we've got a question from a parent who is struggling to make |
| 1:20.5 | her husband's daughter feel loved and like she's part of their growing family while also trying to |
| 1:25.3 | maintain some healthy boundaries in their relationship. |
| 1:32.1 | Can she create a better dynamic without making her daughter feel rejected? |
| 1:37.5 | Then we're advising a mom whose son is having a hard time with receiving gifts if the gift isn't exactly what he wanted. How can she minimize his bad reactions without telling him how to feel? |
| 1:44.6 | And on Slate Plus, you get an extra special bonus segment about Zayla Avant-Garde, the 14-year-old, amazing, just wonder of childhood, who became the first African-American to win the Scripts National Spelling Bee last Thursday. |
| 1:59.4 | So we're going to kick off the show with some triumphs and fails. |
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