Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - We’re Excited to Do a Year Abroad. My Eight-Year-Old Isn’t.
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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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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| 0:35.6 | Welcome to Momma Data Fighting Slates Parenting Podcasts for Thursday, July 6th. |
| 0:40.3 | The gap year or bust edition. I'm Elizabeth Newcamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog |
| 0:45.3 | Dutch Dutch Goose. I'm the mom of three little Henry, who's 11, Oliver, who's 9, and Teddy, |
| 0:50.1 | who's six and we currently are without a location to call home. I'm Zach Rosen. I make another show. |
| 0:57.8 | It's called The Best Advice Show and I am dad Tenoa, who is five and Ami, who's two. We live in |
| 1:04.0 | Detroit, Michigan. I'm Jamil Lemieux. I'm a writer, contributor to Slates Parenting Parenting |
| 1:09.7 | Calum and mom Tenaima, who is ten and we live in Los Angeles. Well, today on the show, we have a |
| 1:16.4 | family who's all ready to take a gap year, except their oldest child is less than thrilled at the |
| 1:21.9 | idea. Every time it comes up in conversation, she comes up with a reason why it won't work. |
| 1:27.2 | We're of course also going to talk about our weekend parenting and if you're sticking around for |
| 1:31.5 | Slate Plus, we're going to talk about co-sleeping. Here's what you'll hear if you have Slate Plus. |
| 1:38.8 | I was up so much with Henry walking to another room, breastfeeding that I was like |
| 1:44.2 | falling asleep during the day doing stuff because every time I got up, I couldn't get back to |
| 1:48.4 | sleep and what finally fixed that for us was co-sleeping that if I could have him there, I could feed |
| 1:53.8 | him and put him back without so much disruption. I was worried I was going to fall asleep in the |
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