Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Why Do We Need The Tooth Fairy?
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🗓️ 25 May 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Jamilah Lemieux and Zak Rosen are joined by Willa Paskin, host of Slate’s Decoder Ring. The three talk about the beauty of weird little rituals, and help a listener through her ick of tooth fairy-ing. Listen to Decoder Ring’s episode: Who Owns the Tooth Fairy?
Jamilah and Zak also share their triumphs and fails for the week. Then, if you’re sticking around for Slate Plus: public schools in Akron recently tried out a no-phones policy, and it might inspire some new philosophies for summer screen time.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Tom Sharpling here, the host of the Best Show, and if you've never heard of the |
| 0:06.0 | Best Show before, everything you need to know is right there in the title. |
| 0:10.4 | Each week we put on the Best Live podcast you're ever going to hear, featuring live callers, |
| 0:15.6 | celebrity guests, music, plenty of surprises, who knows what's going to happen. |
| 0:21.4 | Last month alone we were joined by Conan O'Brien, Patricia Arquette, Jeff Tweety from Wilco, |
| 0:27.4 | Nathan Fielder, Sinan Archives, John Oliver, the list goes on and on. |
| 0:32.2 | So what are you waiting for? |
| 0:33.7 | Join us live every Tuesday night on Twitch at 6 p.m. Pacific Time, and find us the next day |
| 0:39.3 | on the Forever Dog podcast network and wherever you find podcasts. |
| 0:51.9 | Welcome to Momma Data Fighting. |
| 0:53.4 | Slates Parenting Podcast for Thursday, May 25th. |
| 0:56.5 | The Tooth Fairy Troubles Edition. |
| 0:58.9 | I'm Zach Rosen, I make another podcast, it's called The Best If I Show, and I'm dad |
| 1:03.2 | to 5-year-old Noah and 2-year-old Ami. |
| 1:06.3 | We live in Detroit. |
| 1:07.3 | I'm Jamila Lemieux, I'm a writer, contributor to Slates Parent, beating parenting column, |
| 1:12.8 | and mom to Naima, who is 10, and we live in Los Angeles. |
| 1:16.8 | Today on the show we've got an interesting question from a parent who doesn't mind most |
| 1:20.8 | kid traditions, but just can't seem to get on board with the Tooth Fairy. |
| 1:24.4 | We're also going to touch base on our week in parenting, and if you're sticking around |
| 1:27.8 | for Slate Plus, we'll discuss whether school-age kids really need to have their phones on them 24-7. |
| 1:34.8 | Kids will still find ways to organize fights and pick on each other and be messy as they |
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