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🗓️ 7 November 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

On this episode: Part one of ‘Friendship Week!’ Zak talks with Dr. Marisa Franco on her book Platonic: How the Science Of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends. She explains why we’re in a friendship crisis and what we can do about it. They also talk about sharing shame and the importance of durable friendships.

Recommendations:

Elizabeth recommends going to a great bookstore.

Zak recommends Petite Maman by Celine Sciamma

Jamilah recommends Girls5eva

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcasts for Monday, November 7th, the Science of Friendship Edition.
0:09.8	I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, contributor to Slate's Karen feeding parenting column, and mom to Naima, who's nine and a half, and we live in L.A.
0:18.0	I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog Dutch Dutch
0:21.4	goose. I'm the mom of three little's, Henry who's 10, Oliver who's 8, and Teddy
0:24.9	who's 5. We live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I'm Zach Rosen. I make the Best Advice Show podcast,
0:31.7	and I live in Detroit with my family. My oldest Noah is 5 and my youngest army is 2.
0:37.4	This week on the show, we've decided
0:39.2	to take some time and talk about friendships, how to find them, how to cultivate them, and even how to
0:45.1	let them go. It's such a core, important part of our lives, yet it's something that people have
0:50.4	the most trouble with. So for our main segment today, Zach will be talking with Marissa Franco, author of Platonic,
0:57.0	how the science of attachment can help you make and keep friends.
1:01.3	It's a fascinating conversation, so be sure to stick around.
1:05.0	But first, we wanted to dive into the mailbag.
1:07.3	We received a couple of touching emails from a few child-free listeners after our parenting
1:11.8	is a joke episode. Hi, Mom and Dad. I've been a devoted listener with the podcast for about two years
1:17.8	now. And in that episode, Parenting is a joke, the motivation of non-parent listeners came up,
1:22.7	and I wanted to share my own thoughts. I'm in my mid-20s, and I'm just finishing up grad school. I really don't have
1:29.5	contact with children in my day-to-day life. My boyfriend's sister introduced me to the show
1:35.0	in order to share a reflection of a childhood memory she had. And this was around the time where we
1:41.1	were deep in the pandemic and I ended up binging hours upon hours of the show to fill the constant silence and uncertainty.
1:48.6	It's kind of funny. I don't really see the podcast as a tool of preparing me for parenting, though I'm looking forward to potentially having kids one day.
1:56.6	And it's not really a tool to better my interaction with children.
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