Cordially Uninvited Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Jamilah, Elizabeth, and Dan weigh in on whether you are a jerk for uninviting a family from your pod’s holiday plans. Should you follow invitation etiquette during a pandemic? Then they debate how to handle a parent giving a kid a book that might be too mature. Is it too late to take the book back? Or should you prepare to explain the mature content?
In Slate Plus: The hosts reveal the worst gifts they’ve ever given and received. Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on MADAF each week, and no ads. Sign up now to listen and support our work.
Recommendations:
Dan recommends A Map to the Sun by Sloane Leong.
Elizabeth recommends USPS Operation Santa.
Jamilah recommends Black Kids Adventures and Black Adventure Crew, which you should also follow on Instagram.
Games Galore:
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Podcast produced by Rosemary Belson.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains adult language is intended for adults and should be consumed by |
| 0:05.8 | adults. |
| 0:06.4 | If you let your children listen to this, it's on you. |
| 0:11.6 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, December 10th, |
| 0:16.9 | the cordially uninvited edition. |
| 0:19.7 | I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, contributor to Slate's |
| 0:22.7 | Care and Feeding Parenting Column, host of Slates The Kids Are Sleep, Evening Chat Show, |
| 0:28.8 | and Mom to Naima, who is seven, and we live in Los Angeles, California. I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. |
| 0:34.0 | I write the homeschool and family travel blog Dutch Dutch goose. I'm the mom to |
| 0:37.9 | three littles, Henry who's eight, Oliver who's six, and Teddy who's four. And I live in Navar, Florida. I'm Dan Cois. I'm a writer at Slate. I'm the author of the book How to Be a Family. And I'm the dad of Lyra, who's 15, and Harper, who's 13, and we all live in Arlington, Virginia. This week, we have a question about disinviting someone from a holiday celebration, |
| 0:59.3 | which is always a tricky predicament to be in. |
| 1:03.4 | And then we're going to be talking about age-appropriate reading. |
| 1:06.3 | What to do if your kid is reading stuff that seems inappropriate? |
| 1:12.2 | And did you give your kid inappropriate stuff to read because you thought it was cool and maybe thought they were a little |
| 1:16.0 | bit more mature than they actually are? Or is that just me? And on our Slate Plus bonus segment, |
| 1:22.2 | a listener has come to the defense of one Jeff Newkamp's allegedly bad gift giving abilities. |
| 1:29.3 | Jeff Newkamp, of course, being the husband of our Elizabeth Newkamp. |
| 1:32.4 | We will be very interested to hear what this listener had to say in defense of Jeff's gift |
| 1:37.1 | giving. |
| 1:37.5 | And we're also going to be talking about the worst gifts that we ourselves, the host, have given |
| 1:42.2 | and received. |
| 1:43.6 | So if you are a Slate Plus supporter, thank you so much. |
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