Wrangling Preschool Tornadoes
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Elizabeth, Jamilah, and Zak help a mom who feels like her house is in chaos. She wants to know what rules and expectations she can have of her kids now they’re approaching preschool. Can they help out with chores? Should they be expected to not fight at the dinner table? What, if any, punishments are acceptable?
They talk about Julie Beck’s article, Why Did We All Have the Same Childhood? on Slate Plus.
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| 0:34.8 | Welcome to Mom & Dadr Fighting, Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday, |
| 0:38.5 | October 17th, the Parenting Tornado's edition. I'm Elizabeth Newcamp, |
| 0:43.7 | I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch Goose. I'm the mom to three |
| 0:47.3 | little's Henry, who's 10, Oliver, who's 8 and Teddy, who's 6. We live in Colorado Springs, |
| 0:52.1 | Colorado. I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, contributor to Slate's care and feeding |
| 0:57.1 | parenting column, and mom to Naima, who is 9 and a half, and we live in Los Angeles. |
| 1:02.2 | I'm Zach Rosen, I make the best advice show. Podcast, I am the father to Noah, who's 5 |
| 1:07.7 | and Ami, who's 2. We live in Detroit. Well, today on the show, we've got a question from a listener |
| 1:13.3 | who feels like she is parenting two tornadoes. Her kids are approaching preschool and she's looking |
| 1:18.4 | to take the levels of chaos in her household down a few notches. We're going to give her advice |
| 1:23.3 | on transitioning her household rules. Then on Slate Plus, we're discussing the funny bits of |
| 1:28.4 | childhood culture that stick around generation after generation, like typing boobs on a calculator |
| 1:34.2 | or making the Superman S. It's from an Atlantic piece from Julie Beck, which we'll link to in the |
| 1:39.6 | show notes. But here is what you'll hear if you have Slate Plus. Like the cool S, which I, |
| 1:45.6 | what did you call that growing up? And did you hit, did you do that in school? |
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