Corruptible Toddler
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🗓️ 1 October 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Dan, Elizabeth, and guest host Maya Feller answer a question about balancing extracurriculars with middle-school homework. And they advice a parent who desperately wants to tell the kids next door to get off her lawn.
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Recommendations:
Elizabeth recommends Can You Hear the Trees Talking? Discovering the Hidden Life of the Forest by Peter Wohlleben.
Maya recommends Epic, a digital library for kids where they can read e-books and have stories read to them.
Dan recommends the documentary Dick Johnson is Dead on Netflix.
Additional Recommendations:
Catch our LIVE Mom and Dad are Fighting show Wednesday, Oct. 14 at 8:00 p.m. ET.
The Kids Are Asleep, the hilarious Slate Live show. Catch it via Slate’s Facebook or YouTube on Thursdays at 10:00 p.m. ET / 7:00 p.m. PT.
Want more delicious, healthy recipes from Maya? Listen to our school lunch episode.
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Podcast produced by Rosemary Belson.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.8 | Hello and welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, October 1st, the Corruptible Toddler Edition. |
| 0:13.7 | I'm Dan Coice. I'm a writer at slate.com. I'm the author of the book How to Be a Family. |
| 0:18.6 | I'm the dad of Lyra, who's 15, and Harper, who's 13, and we all live in Arlington, Virginia. |
| 0:25.1 | This week, Jamila is out, and we are joined by a special guest host. |
| 0:28.7 | Please introduce yourself. |
| 0:30.1 | Hey, I'm Maya Feller, and I am a registered dietitian nutritionist, and the author of the Southern |
| 0:36.1 | Comfort Food Diabetes Cookbook. I have two kids, |
| 0:40.1 | Parker who is 18 and Anise who's seven. Parker is not 18. He's actually 13. You see how I like |
| 0:46.6 | advanced his age. And I'm taping from Brooklyn, New York. That's awesome. Welcome to you and your adult child. |
| 0:56.4 | I know. |
| 0:57.2 | You're ready to have them out, I guess. |
| 0:59.2 | Totally. |
| 0:59.8 | I'm like so shocked. |
| 1:00.9 | I'm like 13, 18. |
| 1:02.2 | What's the difference? |
| 1:05.4 | Well, we're so glad you here. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm Elizabeth Newkamp, and I write the homeschool and family travel blog Dutch Dutch |
| 1:11.3 | Goose. I'm the mom to three littles, Henry 8, Oliver 6, and Teddy 3, and I'm located in Navar, |
| 1:17.7 | Florida. Hello, everyone. Maya, I just want to confirm that your cookbook is the Southern |
| 1:22.1 | Comfort Food Food, Diabetes Cookbook, not the Southern Comfort, food diabetes cookbook, sponsored by Southern |
| 1:28.6 | Comfort, Bourbon. |
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