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Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Vacation House Havoc

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

Slate Audio

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

On this episode: Jamilah, Zak, and Elizabeth lend advice to a parent who will be taking her family on vacation with her sister’s family. Both families will be sharing a vacation home for a week, but the sister has a much stricter screen time policy for her children. They share some tips on how to navigate house rules when on vacation with another family. 


Recommendations: 

Jamilah recommends this NYT chocolate olive oil cake recipe with All Recipes chocolate glaze

Zak recommends Apples and Peanut Butter for lunch

Elizabeth recommends Guess Who educational cards: Birds, Black History, & Bluey 


Join us on Facebook and email us at momanddad@slate.com to ask us new questions, tell us what you thought of today’s show, and give us ideas about what we should talk about in future episodes. 


Podcast produced by Kristie Taiwo-Makanjuola, Anna Phillips, and Rosemary Belson.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

This episode contains explicit language.

0:05.3

Welcome to Mom and Daughter Fighting Slate's Parenting Podcasts for Monday, September 5th.

0:10.7

The Vacation House Havoc Edition.

0:13.4

I'm Elizabeth Newkamp.

0:14.5

I write the homeschool and family travel blog Dutch Dutch Goose.

0:17.2

I'm the mom of three littles, Henry who's 10, Oliver who's 8, and Teddy who's five. We live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, contributor

0:26.6

to Slate's Karen Feeding Parenting Column and mom to Naima, who's nine, and we live in Los Angeles.

0:32.5

I'm Zach Rosen. I make the Best Advice Show podcast. I'm dad to Noah, who just turned five, and to Ami, who's

0:38.9

nearly two. We live in Detroit. Today, our listener just wants a fun family vacation, but her

0:45.0

late back approach clashes with her sister's strict nature. Can they share a vacation house and still

0:50.8

keep the peace between all the cousins? We'll weigh in. But first, we wanted to jump into

0:55.9

our mailbag. Following our episode, Bluey knows best, we reached out to find out what you and your kids

1:02.2

thought about Bluey, and it seems like you all love him as much as we do. I am Emily and I am seven

1:08.8

years old. And you like the show, Bluey?

1:11.7

Yes.

1:13.0

What do you like about it?

1:14.7

I like that it's funny.

1:19.2

And it has dogs and I like dogs and it just makes me feel home and it's like, it's like hilarious and it and I watch it a lot and that's like

1:33.5

good and it really gets me it really gets that trigger that makes you laugh yes who's your favorite

1:41.3

character uh muffin muffin which episode do you like with Muffin?

1:47.2

Sleepover.

1:48.4

Sleepover. What does she say?

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