Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - The Uniform Crisis
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🗓️ 29 September 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Jamilah and Zak answer a question from a Marine whose son is a freshman at a school for Junior ROTC. The teen loves a lot of aspects of JROTC but loathes uniform day. It causes him anxiety and he’s mentioned quitting the school over the uniform. But most concerningly, the son has mentioned to his parent that he thinks about “unaliving” himself.
As a content warning, we do talk about suicide ideation in this episode. If you or anyone you know is in crisis, you can contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline by dialing 988 or visiting 988lifeline.org.
Then on Slate Plus—per request, Jamilah and Zak will be updating everyone on their cool projects like Jamilah’s book and Zak’s contribution to the We exChange gallery.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to Mom & Dadr Fighting, Slates Parenting Podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | For Thursday, September 29th, the Uniform Crisis Edition. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Jameela Lemieux, a writer, contributor to Slates Parent Feeding Parents and Palom. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Mom Tanayama, who's nine-and-a-half. |
| 0:20.0 | We live in Los Angeles. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Zach Rosen, I make another podcast called The Best It By Show. |
| 0:25.0 | I have two kids. |
| 0:26.0 | My oldest Noah is five, and my youngest Ami is two. |
| 0:29.0 | We live in Detroit. |
| 0:31.0 | We've got an important question today about a teen who loves his junior ROTC program, |
| 0:36.0 | except on Wednesdays, Uniform Day. |
| 0:40.0 | He always struggles on Wednesdays and says he wants to quit. |
| 0:44.0 | And more concerningly, he's mentioned I'm alive in himself. |
| 0:48.0 | So as a content warning, we're letting you know now that we'll be discussing suicidal thoughts. |
| 0:54.0 | That'll be coming after the second ad break, so you can cut out early if need be. |
| 0:59.0 | And then on Slate Plus, we've got some requests for updates on my book, |
| 1:03.0 | Conzac's Very Cool Projects. |
| 1:05.0 | So we're going to take a little time to tell you where things are at with us, |
| 1:08.0 | and how the hell we're still finding time for creative pursuits that are all at once also our jobs. |
| 1:15.0 | Here's a sneak peek of what you'll get if you have Slate Plus. |
| 1:18.0 | It was definitely something that was out of my comfort zone in a lot of ways, |
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