Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - The “Out the Door or Bust” Edition
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🗓️ 4 November 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Jamilah, Elizabeth, and Zak help a listener whose kid just will not get out the door in the mornings. Next, they dive into a debate about the purpose of homework and who gets to decide how much homework a child is required to do. On Slate Plus, they discuss an interesting package from Romper called Parenting at the End Of the World.
Recommendations:
Elizabeth recommends the card game Boom Goes the Dynamite.
Zak recommends the musician Caspar Babypants.
Jamilah recommends the show Wu-Tang: An American Saga.
Additional reading:
The History Of Homework: Why Was It Invented and Who Was Behind It?
Never Mind the Students; Homework Divides Parents
Ask a Teacher: Slacker or Genius?
Ask a Teacher: Homework: Who Needs It?
Ask a Teacher: Homework Is a Constant Battle in Our House
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:04.9 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Friday, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, November 4th, the Out the Door or Bus Edition. |
| 0:13.3 | I'm Jamila Lemieux, Mom to Naima, who's eight, a writer and contributors to Slate's Karen Feeding Parenting column, and we live in Los, California. And Naima is the headline, so we're just going to leave with that from now on. I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch goose. I'm the mom to three littles, Henry who's nine, Oliver, who's seven, and Teddy who's five. And we live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
| 0:43.7 | I'm Zach Rosen. I am dad to Noah, who's four, and Ami, who's one. And I'm host of the Best Advice Show, a very short three times a week podcast featuring your best advice. And I'm in |
| 0:49.4 | Detroit. On today's show, we've got a question about a five-year-old who just can't get out the door in the morning. |
| 0:56.9 | And then we're going to get into a conversation about a very controversial subject, homework. |
| 1:02.5 | Who gets to decide just how much homework a child should do? |
| 1:06.9 | We're going to step into the homework can of worms and reveal just how bad a parent |
| 1:13.6 | I can make myself out to the people on the Facebook page. On Slate Plus, do you feel like |
| 1:19.3 | you're parenting through the crisis of a lifetime? Robert recently published a series on |
| 1:24.8 | parenting at the end of the world, and their take was surprisingly hopeful. |
| 1:29.0 | So Slate Plus listeners, you'll get a chance to hear how we're feeling about parenting in these troubled times. |
| 1:37.2 | But first, we're going to kick off the show with Triumphs and Fails. |
| 1:40.8 | Zach, do you have a triumph or a fail for us this week? |
| 1:43.9 | Yes, I have a fail, which has been a perpetual fail for me. |
| 1:48.4 | My daughter's four, and as four-year-olds are, you know, they can be great and they can be, |
| 1:55.6 | we say spirit at home, but like, come on, they're really fucking hard to parent sometimes. |
| 2:01.1 | They won't listen. They won't put to parent sometimes. They won't listen. |
| 2:02.4 | They won't put their shoes on. |
| 2:04.1 | They won't get out the door. |
| 2:05.4 | They won't eat their dinner. |
| 2:06.5 | They won't stop crying, you know, et cetera, et cetera. |
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