Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - The Surprising Way Video Games Are Good for Kids
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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🗓️ 27 March 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Jamilah, Elizabeth and Zak talk about their experience with video games — and then Elizabeth speaks with Ash Brandin, also known as @TheGamerEducator, about their tips for parenting young gamers. Then the hosts issue recommendations, and respond to a listener letter asking for tips on the latest and greatest in books for young eyes and ears.
Recommendations:
Zak recommends: Abigail Lapell
Elizabeth recommends: Free Run Wild My Child Treasure Hunt
Jamilah recommends: Swarm on Amazon Prime
Books for beginning readers:
E: Usborne My First Readers & Elephant & Piggie & Usborn Phonics Readers
Z: Richard Scarry's Cars and Trucks and Things that Go, The Color Monster: a story about Emotions.
J: Can Read books, including Ty’s Travels and Amelia Bedelia
Graphic Novels:
E: EL Deafo & This Was Our Pact & The Witch Boy (upper elementary & Middle) & Peter & Ernesto A Tale of Two Sloths (lower elementary)
J: Twins (lower elementary) The Baby Sitter’s Club (lower elementary)
Books about Loss:
E: One Wave At A Time & The Invisible String & When Dinosaurs Die & Circus Mirandus (older readers)
J: A Kid’s Book About Death, The Sad Dragon
Just Really Good Books:
E: Hello Universe & We Dream of Space (both by Erin Entrada Kelly)& The Big Umbrella & Anything by Aaron Reynolds (Teddy’s favorite, see President Squid)
J: The People Could Fly, Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters
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| 0:00.0 | At Barclays we're here for the land of football, we're here for the Premier League and the Barclays |
| 0:09.4 | Women's Super League. We're here for the football charts for giving more girls the charts. |
| 0:17.6 | We're here for the grassroots and all the muddy boots. From schools to stadiums, we're here for it |
| 0:25.1 | all Barclays here for the land of football. This episode contains explicit language. |
| 0:35.4 | Welcome to mom and dad are fighting Slate's parenting podcast for Monday, March 27th, |
| 0:40.5 | the video game educator edition. And Jamila Lemue, a writer and contributor to Slate's |
| 0:46.2 | care and feeding parents in column. I'm mom Tanayima who is about 10 and we live in Los Angeles. |
| 0:52.9 | I'm Zach Rosen. I host another show. It's called The Best Advice Show and I'm Dad Tanella, |
| 0:57.3 | who is five and a half and Ami who's two and a half. We live in Detroit. |
| 1:01.2 | I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch Goose. I'm the mom |
| 1:05.5 | of three little's Henry who's 10, Oliver who's eight and Teddy who's six. We live in Colorado Springs, |
| 1:10.8 | Colorado. Today we're diving into the exciting world of video games. We have a special guest joining us |
| 1:17.6 | Ash Brandon known as At Gamer Educator on Instagram. Ash is an expert in gaming trends and has |
| 1:24.0 | plenty of recommendations to share with us. We'll be answering some of your questions exploring |
| 1:28.6 | the latest gaming trends and talking about the benefits of gaming. And yes, there are benefits. |
| 1:34.8 | So that'll be up first and after our discussion with Ash we're going to dull out some recommendations |
| 1:39.2 | and then we're going to wrap up the show by digging into our mailbag. See you back here in a second. |
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