DIY Sex Talk Edition

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

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Parenting, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode: Jamilah, Elizabeth, and Dan answer a question from a family where one parent feels that giving the sex talk to a tween violates the child’s privacy. Then they’ll debate what to do about a husband who regresses into a surly teenager when his parents are around. In Slate Plus: The parenting story of the weekend: Bean Dad. Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on MADAF each week, and no ads. Sign up now to listen and support our work. Recommendations: Elizabeth recommends the 1000 Hours Outside printable. There is also a daily tracker available. Dan recommends World of Snacks. Jamilah recommends Healthy Roots Dolls. Join us on Facebook and email us at momanddad@slate.com to ask us new questions, tell us what you thought of today’s show, and give us ideas about what we should talk about in future episodes. Podcast produced by Rosemary Belson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:06.2	Welcome to Mom & Data Fighting.
0:07.8	Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, January 7th, the DIY Sex Talk Edition.
0:14.2	Actually, it's usually a slight Parenting Podcast, but today we're just going to kind of hang out
0:19.0	because we're tired and we weren't ready to come back from the holidays.
0:22.6	And we missed each other so much.
0:25.3	Yes.
0:26.4	Our regular contact was gone.
0:29.6	We're just going to hang out together, and you guys can just be here.
0:33.8	You guys are aware that for two full weeks I just had to hang out with my family.
0:37.8	Right, you are like pretty high on the list of consistent adult contact,
0:42.6	like a substance, and then you were gone.
0:45.2	And you're my only white friends, isn't it?
0:48.8	We're happy to be your token white friends.
0:51.8	Anyway, I'm Jameel Lemieux.
0:54.8	I'm a writer, I guess, a cultural critic or something.
0:58.6	My name is Mom, she's seven, and we live in Los Angeles, California.
1:02.6	And I'm so tired, and I can't believe the holidays are over.
1:06.0	I'm Dan Coise, I'm a writer at Slate.
1:09.2	I'm the author of the book, How to Be a Family.
1:11.4	I'm the dad of Lyra, who's 15 and Harper, who's 13.
1:14.4	We live in Arlesian, Virginia.
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