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🗓️ 6 July 2023
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Summary
On this episode: Elizabeth, Zak and Jamilah help a listener who’s planning to take the whole family abroad for a year — but their 8-year-old won’t stop raining on the parade.
They also revisit some triumphs and fails from the archives — and then, if you’re sticking around for Slate Plus, we debate whether everyone is secretly co-sleeping with babies, and not sharing stories in fear of getting yelled at.
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| 0:30.5 | This episode contains explicit language. |
| 0:35.9 | Welcome to mom and dad are fighting Slate's parenting podcasts for Thursday, July 6th. |
| 0:40.6 | The gap year or bust edition. |
| 0:42.6 | I'm Elizabeth Newcamp, I write the homeschool and family travel blog Dutch Dutch Goose. |
| 0:46.4 | I'm the mom of three little Henry, who's 11, Oliver, who's 9, and Teddy, who's 6. |
| 0:51.6 | And we currently are without a location to go home. |
| 0:55.9 | I'm Zach Rosen, I make another show, it's called The Best Advice Show, and I'm dad |
| 1:00.4 | to Noah, who is 5, and Ami, who's 2. |
| 1:03.7 | We live in Detroit, Michigan. |
| 1:05.5 | I'm Jamile Lemieux, I'm a writer, contributor to Slate's care and feeding parenting column, |
| 1:10.6 | and mom to Naima, who is 10, and we live in Los Angeles. |
| 1:14.7 | Well, today on the show we have a family who's already to take a gap year, except their |
| 1:19.7 | oldest child is less than thrilled at the idea. |
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