Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - The “Toys or Trash” Edition
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🗓️ 2 December 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Elizabeth, Jamilah, and Zak help a parent who is sick of their generous neighbors constantly sending over hand-me-down toys. The letter writer is already running out of space in their house. Is it OK to simply refuse? Can they donate the toys? Would tossing the toys crush the neighbors’ generous spirit? Then they answer a question from a dad whose daughter needs surgery. How can he explain the procedure without frightening her?
On Slate Plus, the hosts talk about how this time of year forces families to really figure out how they’re celebrating the holidays and, in turn, how religion operates within their family. Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on MADAF each week, and no ads. Sign up now at slate.com/momanddadplus to listen and support our work.
Recommendations:
Zak recommends @MenWithThePot on Instagram
Jamilah recommends Love Life on HBO
Elizabeth recommends a printable Christmas reading calendar.
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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. |
| 0:04.7 | It is, after all, the one hour a day I spend away from my children. |
| 0:10.6 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting Slate's Parenting Podcasts for Thursday, December 2nd, the Toys or Trash Edition. |
| 0:18.9 | I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch, Goose. |
| 0:23.4 | I'm the mom to three littles, Henry who's nine, Oliver who's seven, and Teddy who's five. |
| 0:28.1 | We live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
| 0:31.3 | I'm Zach Rosen. |
| 0:32.4 | I host The Best Advice Show, a very tiny advice show featuring your best advice. |
| 0:37.2 | I live in Detroit with my family. |
| 0:39.1 | Noah is four and Ami is one. My name is Jimmy Lillamue. I'm a writer, contributor to Slate's |
| 0:45.3 | Karen Feeding Parenting column, and Mom to Naima, who's eight and a half, and we live in Los Angeles, |
| 0:50.3 | California. On today's show, we answer a question from some parents whose kids keep bringing home toys |
| 0:56.7 | when they go to play at the neighbors. |
| 0:58.6 | How do you politely refuse donations you don't want? |
| 1:02.1 | Then we discuss how to prepare a skittish four-year-old for an overnight medical procedure. |
| 1:07.5 | On Slate Plus, happy Hanukkah! |
| 1:10.0 | We are discussing religious customs and how we do or don't introduce |
| 1:13.7 | them to our kids. First, though, we're going to kick off the show with triumphs and fails. |
| 1:19.0 | Jamila, do you have a triumph or fail for us this week? |
| 1:22.0 | Naima and I went to a birthday party this weekend for a young man who's a friend of mine's son. He turned 11. |
| 1:28.4 | He's friends with Naima. |
| 1:30.0 | I waited to the last minute to buy a gift and a card or whatever. |
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