Dino Dilemma Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
$On this week’s episode: Jamilah, Dan, and Elizabeth debate how to teach a kid about dinosaurs when the parents differ ideologically about evolution and creationism. They also answer a question about prepping a teen for her first concert by herself, whenever it’s safe to see live music again.
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Recommendations:
Dan recommends Wingspan.
Elizabeth recommends Warmies.
Jamilah recommends Trader Joe’s Gluten Free Cinnamon Coffee Cake Muffins.
Also Mentioned:
Evolution Education in the U.S. Is Getting Better by Glenn Branch and Ann Reid.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains language that you probably don't want to have to explain to your |
| 0:05.0 | children. Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:10.5 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday, January 21st, the |
| 0:16.3 | Dino Dilemma Edition. I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, cultural critic, contributor to Slate's Karen Beating Parenthooding column, host of a TBA new show for Slate Live. I'm not gone. I'm just taking a little bit of a break. And mom to the one in only Naima, who lives in Los Angeles and I, too, am here as her co-star. |
| 1:00.1 | Oh, is we are all famous co-stars. I'm Dan Coice. I'm a writer at Slate. I'm the author of The Book Academy of Family. I'm the dad of Lyra, who's 15, and Harper, who's 13, and we live in Arlington, Virginia. I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family blog, Dutch, Dutch, Deuce. 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. So as you may know, |
| 1:05.5 | we record the show on Tuesday afternoons, and it's published on Thursdays. If you are in the United States, like the three of us are, you know that inauguration falls right in between that. |
| 1:10.6 | Basically, we recorded this in |
| 1:11.8 | the past with the assumption and hope that there would be a smooth transition of power, and we are |
| 1:16.5 | treating the show as such, and we will leave the political coverage to Slates What's Next, |
| 1:21.4 | political gap fest, and the gist. But for today, we are going to be keeping it light, or for the very |
| 1:26.7 | least, a political. Also, by the way, or for the very least, apolitical. |
| 1:28.2 | Also, by the way, I am the vice president now. |
| 1:31.0 | If you didn't know my sorority sister, Kamala Harris, who attended the Howard University, which I also attended, is the vice president. |
| 1:38.4 | So that means that I, too, am vice president now. |
| 1:41.1 | Congratulations, Madam Vice President. |
| 1:43.5 | Thank you very much. |
| 1:45.0 | I hope this absolves me for initially endorsing Elizabeth Warren. |
| 1:49.0 | My sense is that means that Naima is the president. |
| 1:52.0 | Naima is definitely the president. |
| 1:55.0 | So let's have an orally transition of power around here, folks. |
| 1:58.0 | Yes. |
| 1:59.0 | I'd like to have an orally transition of power in my house, like when we try to shift |
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