Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Why You Need Parenting “Friendlies”
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🗓️ 10 November 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: We’re bringing you part two of ‘Friendship Week!’ We’ve received a lot of questions in the last year or so about finding parenting friends so we brought in the fabulous Meagan Francis and Sarah Powers from The Mom Hour podcast to help us tackle them. Meagan and Sarah share their tips for striking up conversations with potential friends, converting acquaintances to friends, and even how to make friends outside of your kid’s social circle.
Then on Slate Plus: Jamilah, Zak, and Elizabeth take a friendship quiz to figure out what kinds of friends they are.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to mom and dad are fighting slaves parenting podcast for Thursday November 10th |
| 0:07.4 | the finding and keeping parenting friends edition. |
| 0:11.2 | I'm Jamila Mew, a writer, contributor to slaves parenting parents in college and mom |
| 0:16.6 | tonight who is nine and a half and we live in Los Angeles. |
| 0:20.5 | I'm Elizabeth Newcamp. |
| 0:21.5 | I write the homeschool and family travel blog Dutch Dutch Goose. |
| 0:24.3 | I'm the mom to three little Henry, who's ten Oliver, who's eight and Teddy, who's six. |
| 0:29.0 | We live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
| 0:31.7 | I'm Zach Rosen. |
| 0:32.7 | I make another podcast called The Best Did Face Show and I live in Detroit with my family. |
| 0:36.8 | My oldest Noah is five and my youngest Ami is two. |
| 0:40.8 | Today on the show we're continuing our special friendship week. |
| 0:44.4 | Elizabeth joined forces with the mom our podcast host Megan and Sarah to answer all your questions |
| 0:50.0 | about making and keeping friends. |
| 0:52.1 | Then on Slate Plus we're going to see exactly what type of friends we are. |
| 0:57.0 | Here's a sneak peek if you have Slate Plus. |
| 0:59.6 | It's a really profound question for me. |
| 1:03.8 | In 10 years, Naima will be in college. |
| 1:06.2 | So in theory, I could be traveling the world many millions of miles online but I do want |
| 1:11.4 | another child so I'm going to say hoping that I'm being able to live here. |
| 1:17.4 | If you want more of us every single week and you don't want to hear those pesky ads that |
| 1:21.6 | keep the lights on around here, Slate Plus is for you. |
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