Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - The “Snoopy Phone” Edition
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🗓️ 9 December 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Elizabeth, Jamilah, and Zak help a parent who has been monitoring their teenage daughter’s text messages. Have they crossed a line, or are they doing their due diligence to ensure their child is safe? Then they answer a question from a parent whose 2 year-old daughter wants her ears pierced. How early is too early, and who should be making this kind of decision?
On Slate Plus, the hosts talk about how one Black mother’s video about her night doula went viral, sparking a debate about privilege, luxury, and the expectation that mothers, particularly Black mothers, must be suffering to succeed at motherhood.
Recommendations:
Zak recommends calling your kids' creative hobbies an art practice.
Jamilah recommends Passing on Netflix
Elizabeth recommends the book Letters From Father Christmas
Join us on Facebook and email us at momanddad@slate.com to ask us new questions, tell us what you thought of today’s show, and give us ideas about what we should talk about in future episodes.
Podcast produced by Zak Rosen.
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| 0:00.0 | Just to give you a heads up, one of us is bound to say something not suitable for little ears. |
| 0:04.8 | It is, after all, the one hour a day I spend away from my children. |
| 0:10.4 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting. |
| 0:12.7 | Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, December 9th, the Snoopy Phone Edition. |
| 0:17.7 | I'm Zach Rosen. I host The Best Advice Show, a very short advice show featuring your |
| 0:21.5 | best advice. I live in Detroit with my family. My daughter Noah is four and my son Ami is one. |
| 0:27.4 | I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer and contributors to Slate's care and feeding parenting column. |
| 0:32.5 | I'm Mom to Naima, who's eight, and we live in Los Angeles. I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch goose. |
| 0:40.4 | I'm the mom to three littles, Henry who's nine, Oliver who's seven, and Teddy who's five. |
| 0:45.0 | And we live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
| 0:48.2 | On today's show, we answer a question from a mom who started phone snooping and now she can't |
| 0:53.1 | stop. |
| 0:53.7 | Does she owe her daughter any privacy or since she's paying for the phone, |
| 0:57.0 | does she have a lifetime warranty on snooping? |
| 0:59.5 | Then, what is the perfect age for ear piercing? |
| 1:02.6 | We weigh in. |
| 1:04.0 | On Slate Plus, we talk about a viral video post by a black mother about her nighttime doula. |
| 1:09.5 | Why is the internet going crazy over a mom getting some much |
| 1:12.2 | deserved sleep? But first, we got a bunch of responses to our toys or trash episode with similar |
| 1:18.0 | advice, so we wanted to share one of those letters with you. Elizabeth, what did they say? |
| 1:22.4 | Hi, mom and daughter fighting. I'm just catching up on your latest episode and wanted to suggest an alternative |
| 1:28.2 | solution to the family dealing with unwanted gifts. Give them back. My daughter, when she was in |
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