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Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Your Kids Don’t Owe You Anything

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

Slate Audio

Kids & Family, Society & Culture, Parenting

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

From Slate's Hear Me Out podcast: … stop with the breakfast-in-bed.

As we reflect on the summertime season of parenting holidays in the U.S. — Mother’s Day in May and Father’s Day in June — it’s worth remembering that these holidays’ histories are deeply political… not unlike parenting itself.

Parenting is complicated, now more so than ever. In the best of circumstances, it’s a two-way relationship with a person who didn’t ask to be here. So what can we expect from our children?

Gabrielle Blair, founder of DesignMom.com and author of Ejaculate Responsibly, joins us to make the case that kids aren’t bound by blood to do, or be, anything.

If you have thoughts you want to share, or an idea for a topic we should tackle, you can now email the show: hearmeout@slate.com

Podcast production by Maura Currie


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0:30.0

Hey mom and daughter fighting listeners, we're off today because it's Juneteenth,

0:33.6

but we didn't want to leave you without an episode. So, we're bringing you an interesting and perhaps

0:37.9

kind of provocative conversation from Slate's podcast Hear Me Out. The episode is from a few weeks

0:43.6

back, but we thought it was still relevant seeing as we just celebrated Father's Day.

0:47.6

I'm going to hand the mic over to host Celeste Headley and we'll see you back here on Thursday.

0:52.0

Welcome to Hear Me Out. I'm your host Celeste Headley. As we enter the summer months already,

0:58.6

it means we're also approaching two kind of fraught holidays for lots of Americans,

1:03.0

Mother's Day and Father's Day. Now, you might think of these holidays as silly or superficial

1:08.9

or commercialized beyond belief, but their origins are deeply political. In parenting,

1:14.2

whether you like it or not, is political as well. To be a parent means being in a really

1:19.3

complicated relationship with a person who didn't necessarily choose to be there.

1:24.5

So, in the best of circumstances, is bringing a kid into the world a selfish act,

1:29.1

if they can't consent to be here? Consider this. Maybe kids don't owe their parents anything.

1:35.0

Yeah, you deserve a day off, but the idea that your kids owe you that,

1:38.5

no, you owe your kids. It's hard to be alive and you force them to be alive.

1:42.8

Writer and influencer Gabrielle Blair joins us on Hear Me Out in just a moment. Stay with us.

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