Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - The Quiet as a Mouse Edition
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🗓️ 3 June 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Jamilah and Elizabeth are joined by Isaac Butler, co-host of Slate's Working podcast. They advise a family who just moved into a new building. Not even 24 hours after meeting their downstairs neighbors, they received a potentially passive aggressive note about their kids’ noise level. How can they maintain peace in the building while letting their kids play? Then—what should you do when your kid wants to quit a sport midseason?
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Recommendations:
Elizabeth recommends signing up for summer reading at your local library.
Isaac recommends BOB books.
Jamilah recommends catching up on reading and may she humbly suggest some pieces to get you started: Can I Bring My Very New Boyfriend to a 4-Year-Old’s Birthday Party?, My Daughter Sees Herself in Her Black Role Models and it Makes All the Difference, and High Mom: Why I’m (Mostly) Honest with My Daughter About My Weed Smoking.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, June 3rd, the Quiet as a Mouse Edition. |
| 0:12.4 | I'm Jemila Lemieux, a writer, contributor to Slate's Karen Feeding Parenting column and a mom to Naima, who is eight, and we live in L.A. |
| 0:20.3 | I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the |
| 0:22.3 | homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch, Dutch, Goose. I'm the mom to three littles, Henry, |
| 0:27.8 | who's nine, Oliver, who's seven, and Teddy who's four. And we live in Colorado Springs. |
| 0:33.5 | And I am Isaac Butler. I am a writer and the co-host of Slate's Working Podcast, the father of Iris, age six, and we all live in Brooklyn, New York. |
| 0:44.7 | Thank you for joining us again, Isaac. It's always great to have you on the show. |
| 0:48.2 | Always a pleasure to be here. Today, we're going to be counseling a family who's got new downstairs neighbors. |
| 0:59.5 | And not even 24 hours after moving in, these new neighbors have already sent a potentially passive, aggressive note about their little boy's noise level. |
| 1:03.9 | What to do, what to do. |
| 1:05.7 | Then we'll be answering a question about a little girl who wants to quit soccer. |
| 1:09.2 | Her parents have her sitting on the bench for a few games. but is that the best way to teach a kid about commitment? And on Slate |
| 1:16.3 | Plus, we'll be debating if this slower pace of life will stick around after the pandemic, |
| 1:21.3 | or if we're going to be signing our kids up for all of the activities to make up for lost time. |
| 1:29.8 | But first, triumphs and fails. Isaac, |
| 1:36.4 | what do you have for us on your triumphant, hopefully return to the show? I have a triumph, I think, but it is not a solo triumph by any means, which is that, you know, vaccination rates are going |
| 1:44.0 | pretty well here in New York City and COVID rates are going down and, you know, vaccination rates are going pretty well here in New York City and COVID rates are going down. |
| 1:48.0 | And we have sort of in as safe a way as we feel comfortable with, given that IRS is six and can't get vaccinated, we're like starting to do normal life stuff again. |
| 1:58.1 | You know, like we took her to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
| 2:01.3 | We went to a masked party in a friend's backyard and had pizza and she jumped on a trampoline |
| 2:08.2 | and stuff like that. And it just feels totally great. It feels so fucking good. And it is a, |
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