DIY Sex Talk Edition
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3.9 • 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.
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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.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.9 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting. |
| 0:07.9 | Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, January 7th, the DIY Sex Talk Edition. |
| 0:14.1 | Actually, it's usually Slate's Parenting Podcast, but today we're just going to kind of hang out because we're tired. |
| 0:20.2 | 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. |
| 0:26.3 | Our regular contact was gone. |
| 0:29.5 | We're just going to hang out together and you guys can like just be here. |
| 0:33.9 | You guys aware that for two full weeks I just had to hang out with my family. |
| 0:37.6 | Yeah. Yeah. |
| 0:38.0 | Right. |
| 0:38.5 | You are pretty high on the list of consistent adult contact, like of substance, and then you were gone. |
| 0:45.3 | And you're my only white friends, essentially. |
| 0:48.5 | We're happy to be your token white friends. |
| 0:51.7 | Anyway, I'm Jamila Lemieux. |
| 0:54.7 | I'm a writer, |
| 0:56.0 | I guess, |
| 0:56.7 | a cultural critic or something. |
| 0:58.9 | Naima's mom, |
| 0:59.9 | she's seven, |
| 1:00.7 | and we live in |
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