Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - The “Real Thanksgiving” Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Zak, Jamilah, and Amber Smith advise a listener who wants to provide their preschooler with a less whitewashed history of Thanksgiving. They have some helpful tips for explaining the real thanksgiving in a more realistic, age-appropriate manner. Zak then sits down with Jenny Rosenstrach, bestselling author and creator of Dinner: A Love Story, to strategize how to include your child in holiday cooking and avoid Empty Celebration Syndrome. If you want to hear more of Zak’s conversation with Jenny, check out The Best Advice Show. On Slate Plus, Zak, Jamilah, and Amber recount some Turkey nightmares and share their attempts at tricky new dishes.
Recommendations:
Jamilah recommends taking time to pause and play with your child this holiday season.
Amber recommends baby sock-shoes, Grookz.
Zak recommends bringing your child to the bookstore and supporting your local book sellers.
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Podcast produced by Kevin Bendis and Rosemary Belson.
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| 0:35.3 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are fighting. Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday, |
| 0:39.3 | November 25th, the rethinking traditions edition. I'm Jameela Lemieux, a writer, |
| 0:45.9 | contributor to Slate's care and feeding parenting column and mom Tsunayima, who is eight-and-a-half |
| 0:51.3 | and some change and we live in Los Angeles, California. I'm Zach Rosen, host of The Best |
| 0:57.2 | Advice Show, a very short podcast featuring your best advice and my kids are Noah, |
| 1:02.4 | who's four and Ami, who's one. We live in Detroit. Hi, I'm Amber Smith. I am the Senior Manager |
| 1:09.2 | of Audience Development for Slate Podcast and I am the mama to Marley, who is 16 months old and |
| 1:15.6 | we live in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Amber, thank you so much for joining us. So happy to have you |
| 1:22.1 | back. I'm happy to be here. So on today's show, we're going to be talking first about how Thanksgiving |
| 1:29.3 | is taught at school. Our letter writer is uncomfortable with the whitewashing and her kids' |
| 1:34.4 | school's current curriculum and she wants to know how she can change that. Then Zach is sitting |
| 1:40.0 | down with best-selling author and creator of Dinner, a love story to talk about food traditions, |
| 1:45.4 | picky eaters and getting your kids involved in the kitchen. In Slate Plus, we're staying in the |
| 1:51.2 | kitchen. If you're listening on Thursday morning, you'll probably be in the kitchen too, so we |
| 1:55.6 | decided to share some of our best food disasters and holiday hot takes. But first, as always, we're |
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