Just to give you a heads up, one of us is bound to say something not suitable for little ears.

It is, after all, the one hour a day I spend away from my children.

Welcome to Mom and Daughter Fighting, Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday, February 4th, the Concussion Chaos Edition.

I'm Elizabeth Newcamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch

Goose. I'm the mom to three littles, Henry who's eight, Oliver who's six, and Teddy who's

four, and we live in Navar, Florida. I'm Jamila Lemieux. I'm a writer, contributor to Slate's

Karen Feeding Parenting column and mom to Naima, who is seven, and we live in Los Angeles, California.

I'm Dan Cois. I'm a writer at Slate. I'm the author of The Book How to Be a Family. I'm the dad of Lyra,

who's 15, Harper, who's 13, and we live in Arlington, Virginia. Today we're going to talk about

concussions at energetic three-year-olds. Not exactly a perfect pair. We'll answer

questions from a mom whose brain is almost feeling better, except when her little one gets a bit

too loud. How can she get her daughter to comply with the necessary calmness? After that, we're

going to answer questions from a non-parent who's looking for advice on being a fun aunt figure

for her friends' kids. We need more of

her out there for sure. On our Slate Plus bonus segment, we'll be doing a rapid fire book

recommendation round for everyone who is desperate for new stories. And as always, we have triumphs

and fails and recommendations. So Jamila, do you have a triumph or fail for us this week?

I've got a little bitty fail this week. Nothing too bad. So Naima and my mother are very close, which is something I absolutely love. And my mom who lives in Chicago, where I'm from, she's a nice little one-bedroom apartment. You know, my mom has nice taste. It's well decorated. But it's very much a pretty

standard apartment. Naima talks about my mom's home as if it is the palace of Versailles.

And it kind of tickles me. And it's interesting because I can do nothing to dazzle her. Like, as hard as I've worked,

every wall in this house, there are no white walls in my home. Every wall is pink, yellow. There's

flowers. There's wallpaper. There's paintings. There's all this stuff. And it just does not

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