Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Tom and Jerry Toddlers
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3.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Elizabeth, Lucy and Zak help a member of the Slate Parenting Facebook group whose toddlers are at each other… Constantly. We’re just glad they don’t have cartoon hammers.
We’ll also check in on where the hosts are this week – and then, if you’re coming to hang out on the Slate Plus Playground, we’re talking about the long history of making stuff with your kids.
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Lucy’s check-in: planning a Costco trip weeks in advance
Elizabeth’s check-in: small things made big
Zak’s check-in: the newness wears off.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode may contain explicit language. |
| 0:05.7 | Welcome to Karen Feeding, the show where we parent together. |
| 0:09.2 | I'm Lucy Lopez. I host another podcast, The Mamasita Rica. I'm mother to Amelia who's 14, |
| 0:15.2 | Avery who's 11, and we live in Miami, Florida. I'm Elizabeth New Camp. I write the family travel |
| 0:20.7 | blog Dutch Dutch Goose. I'm the mom toamp. I write the family travel blog Dutch Dutch goose. |
| 0:21.9 | I'm the mom to Henry who's 12, Oliver who's 10, and Teddy who's 8. We live in Tokyo, Japan. I'm Zach Rosen. I host another show. It's called The Best Advice Show. And I am Dad to Noah, who's seven, and Ami, who's four. We live in Amsterdam. Today we're answering a question about some Tom and Jerry |
| 0:38.9 | like toddlers who are constantly squabbling. We're just really happy there aren't any cartoon |
| 0:44.5 | hammers here, but this parent from the Slate Parenting Facebook group is still looking for some |
| 0:50.1 | advice. And we've got some. And then after that, we'll check in and share what's on our |
| 0:54.2 | minds this week. So let's get going. We're going to take a quick break, but we'll see you right |
| 0:58.5 | back here in a minute for our question. We're back. And it's time to answer our listener |
| 1:09.9 | question. This came from an anonymous member of |
| 1:12.7 | the Slate Parenting Facebook group. My two and four-year-olds are squabbling constantly. The older one |
| 1:18.8 | tends to be more verbally argumentative, while the younger one will physically retaliate. This then |
| 1:25.0 | leads them to swiping and pinching each other. We've tried setting rules that |
| 1:29.9 | hitting is not okay, taking a child into another room so they can have some space with a parent. |
| 1:35.1 | Encourage them to replace the hitting with hugging. Nothing has stuck. Their default behavior |
| 1:42.8 | is still very reminiscent of Tom and Jerry. Any words of advice? |
| 1:48.6 | One word. And I might get some pushback. Brib. Can we incentivize nonviolence? Because yeah, like replacing hitting with hugs. yeah sure ideally but like yeah especially to |
| 2:04.0 | your to your brother but if it's like really like can we have one afternoon of no hitting if we do |
| 2:12.5 | we can watch a movie tonight and you know that that nonviolent behavior begets more nonviolent behavior. |
| 2:19.7 | I don't know if that's cheating in some parenting rule book. |
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