Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - The “Perfect Sleep Environment” Edition
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🗓️ 9 June 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Elizabeth, Zak, and Jamilah have some relatable parenting triumphs and fails. Then Elizabeth is joined by Dr. Rebecca Spencer, principal investigator at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Somneurolab. Dr. Spencer shares some wonderful insight for creating a good sleep environment, navigating napping, and what your kids should (or shouldn’t) be doing right before bed.
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Podcast produced by Rosemary Belson and Jasmine Ellis. Production help from Kristie Taiwo-Makanjuola.
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| 0:00.0 | If you're looking for a new podcast, might I recommend our podcast? |
| 0:09.0 | Hi, I'm Gabe Dunn, and I'm Allison Raskin. |
| 0:12.5 | We have a weekly show called Just Between Us where we explore every kind of topic out |
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| 0:18.5 | From mental health to sexuality, to animal behavior, to science, we love to interview |
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| 0:29.0 | We also answer listener questions and play a very silly game called hypotheticals. |
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| 0:58.0 | This episode contains explicit language. |
| 1:02.8 | Welcome to Mom & Dadder Fighting's late parenting podcast for Thursday, June 9th, the perfect |
| 1:08.3 | sleep environment edition. |
| 1:10.4 | I'm Elizabeth Newkamp, I write the Homeschool and Family Travel Blog Dutch Dutch Goose. |
| 1:14.2 | I'm the mom to three littles, Henry who's 10, Oliver who's 8, and Teddy who's 5. |
| 1:18.7 | And we live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
| 1:21.5 | I'm Zach Rosen, I make the Best Advice Show podcast, and I live in Detroit with my family. |
| 1:26.6 | My oldest Noah is four, and my son Ami is one. |
| 1:30.6 | My name is Shemilo Lemieux, I'm a writer, contributor to Slate's care and feeding parents |
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