Does My Toddler Need Shorts Under Her Dress?

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

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Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

On this episode: Zak, Lucy and Elizabeth help a listener whose daycare has requested that her toddler daughter wear shorts underneath skirts and dresses. The listener’s knee-jerk reaction is that it’s unnecessary… but we’ll offer some suggestions about what she could be missing, and why how we dress our kids is important. We also dole out a round of recommendations, and share some stuff you listeners have been loving — and, for our Slate Plus listeners, we’ll talk about the way we choose baby names, and how hard it is to escape the popular name hivemind. Zak recommends: Lake drawing app Elizabeth recommends: Shakespeare Insult Generator book or online Lucy and Amelia recommend: “The Throne of Glass” Join us on Facebook and email us at [email protected] 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. You can also call our phone line: (646) 357-9318. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you’ll also be supporting the work we do here on Care and Feeding. Sign up now at slate.com/careplus to help support our work. Podcast produced by Maura Currie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode may contain explicit language.
0:03.2	Welcome to Karen Feeding,
0:08.0	the show where we parent together.
0:10.0	I'm Lucy Lopez.
0:11.0	I also host the Mama Cita Rika. I'm mother to Amelia who's 14.
0:15.1	Avery who's 12. What? Avery who's 11.
0:18.8	I got at one of these days. And we live in Miami, Florida. My name is Zach Rosen.
0:24.0	I host another podcast, The Best Advice Show,
0:26.0	and I am dad to almost 7-year-old Noah
0:29.0	and almost 4-year-old Army.
0:31.0	We live in Detroit.
0:32.0	I'm Elizabeth New Camp. I write the
0:33.8	family travel blog Dutch Dutch Goose and I'm the mom of three little's Henry who's
0:37.5	12, Oliver who's 10, and Teddy who's 7. We live in Tokyo Japan.
0:41.8	Today on the show we're answering a question about a toddler who's been asked to cover up
0:46.0	and wear some shorts under her skirts and dresses.
0:50.0	We'll talk through whether that's a problematic ask and we'll share some practical solutions too.
0:55.4	We'll also share a round of recommendations including a bunch of great stuff that listeners have shared with us.
1:01.1	And then if you're in the Slate Plus Club, we're diving
1:04.9	into the generational divide as illustrated by baby names. Here's what you'll hear
1:10.9	if you have sleep plus.
1:13.9	The group think kind of remains,
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