Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - You Know What? Grades Are Bullsh*t.
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🗓️ 26 February 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Elizabeth Newcamp, Zak Rosen, and Lucy Lopez answer a question from the Slate Parenting Facebook group… wondering what counts as a good grade, and what the consequences should be at home for bad grades. We come in hot with a dismissal of the whole premise. It’s great.
We’ll also share a round of recommendations — and then, if you’re in the Slate Plus club, we’re assembling our own toddler book tolerability index.
Recommendations:
Elizabeth recommends: This episode of Radio Lab: Zoozve
Lucy recommends: What The Bread Says by Vanessa Garcia
Zak recommends: A Light in the Attic read by Shel Silverstein
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Podcast produced by Maura Currie, with special thanks to Rosemary Belson.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode may contain explicit language. |
| 0:03.0 | Welcome to Karen Feeding, the show where we parent together. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Zach Rosen, I make another podcast, it's called The Best Advice Show, |
| 0:11.0 | and I'm Dad to Noah, who's six, and Army who's three. |
| 0:14.6 | We live in Detroit, Michigan. |
| 0:16.2 | I'm Elizabeth New Camp. |
| 0:17.3 | I write the family travel blog, Dutch, Dutch Goose. |
| 0:19.6 | I'm the mom of Three Little's, Henry, who's 11, Oliver who's 9,, and Teddy who's 7. We live in Tokyo, Japan. |
| 0:26.0 | Hey, I'm Lucille Lopez. I host the Mama See Tachriga Podcast. I'm the mother to Amelia, who's 13, |
| 0:32.0 | Avery who's 11, and we live in Miami. |
| 0:35.0 | Today on the show, we're talking about grades. |
| 0:38.0 | A member of our Slate Parenting Facebook Group is looking for advice on what's good, what's bad, and what the consequences should be. |
| 0:45.0 | And as report card and progress support season enters full swing, there's no better time to talk about this. |
| 0:50.0 | Later on, we're also going to recommend some things we're loving right now and think you might too. |
| 0:54.8 | And then if you're in the Slate Plus Club, we're diving into the spectrum of toddler book |
| 0:59.0 | tolerability. Here's what you'll hear if you have Slate Plus. |
| 1:02.3 | Yeah, they enjoyed it, but for me I was just like Here's what you'll hear if you have Slate Plus. |
| 1:02.8 | Yeah, they enjoyed it, but for me I was just like, |
| 1:06.0 | what are we doing here? |
| 1:07.4 | We gotta go to bed. |
| 1:08.9 | It was like a dinner and a movie. |
| 1:10.3 | Which Dr. Seuss book? |
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