Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Too Many Toddler Germs
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🗓️ 23 February 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Elizabeth, Zak, and Jamilah dish about traveling with kids (featuring forgotten carseats and a TSA scramble), searching for love, and appreciating your kids for the wonderfully unique people they are. They also answer two listener questions. The first is about combating the colds kids constantly bring into the house and the second is about creating a cozy sleep environment for your little ones. On Slate Plus, they dig into the mailbag and read some wonderful listener letters.
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| 0:47.6 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are fighting Sleep's parenting podcasts for Thursday February 23rd, |
| 0:52.8 | the constant colds edition. I'm Elizabeth Newkamp, I write the homeschool and family |
| 0:57.3 | travel blog Dutch Dutch Goose. I'm the mom of three littles, Henry |
| 1:00.2 | who's 10, Oliver who's 8 and Teddy who's 6. We live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
| 1:05.7 | I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, contributor to Slayscare and feeding parenting column |
| 1:10.3 | and mom to Naima who's almost 10 and we live in Los Angeles. |
| 1:14.9 | I'm Zach Rosen, I make the best advice show podcast and I am dad to Noah who's five |
| 1:20.2 | and Ami who's two and we are on the road this week in Arizona. |
| 1:24.4 | Fun! |
| 1:25.4 | Yes. |
| 1:26.4 | I'm jealous of your hopefully warm weather. |
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