The “Screen Time Semantics” Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Zak, Elizabeth, and Greg Lavallee advise a listener whose rambunctious little one is on his third visit to the emergency room. How can our listener teach him that he can get hurt if he keeps up with the daredevil antics? They also debate how to talk to kids about screen time and how to set up healthy boundaries with devices. On Slate Plus, they lament the impending winter clothes chaos.
Recommendations:
Greg recommends asking your cool adult friends to give your kids compliments.
Elizabeth recommends Aaron Slater, Illustrator by Andrea Beaty.
Zak recommends taking yourself to the movies. The new Wes Anderson film, The French Dispatch, is a great pick-me-up.
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| 0:54.8 | Just to give you a heads up, one of us has bound to say something not suitable for little ears. |
| 1:07.7 | Welcome to Mom and Dad Our Fighting. Slates parenting podcasts for Thursday and November 11th. |
| 1:12.9 | The Screen Time Semantics Edition. I'm Zach Rosen. I have two kids, Noah's four, |
| 1:18.2 | and Ami's one, and we live in Detroit. I host the Best Advice Show Podcast. It's a very |
| 1:23.6 | short three times a week podcast featuring your best advice. I'm Elizabeth Newcamp. I write |
| 1:28.9 | the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch Goose. I'm the mom to three littles. Henry |
| 1:33.9 | who's nine, Oliver who's seven, and Teddy who is five. And we live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
| 1:41.0 | I'm Greg LaValle. I'm the VP of Technology for Slate Magazine. I'm the father of Nina who is eight |
| 1:47.7 | and three quarters. Here go who is six. And we live in Washington, DC. |
| 1:53.0 | On today's show, we've got a question about getting rough and tumble kids to slow down. |
| 1:57.1 | Our listener's kid is on his third ER visit. Oh man. Then we are going to help a parent who's |
| 2:03.1 | tween bristles at any suggestions that screens can be addictive. How should she have a productive |
| 2:08.4 | non-confrontational talk about screen time? On Slate Plus, we're tackling that pile of clothes on |
| 2:13.6 | the floor. No, not the one in the corner of your kids room. The one that's always beside |
| 2:17.4 | your front door as soon as the weather changes. How should you manage the winter coat chaos? |
| 2:22.4 | Or is it just hopeless? Find out on Slate Plus. First though, we're going to kick off the show |
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