Does the Spirit Of the Game Matter?
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Elizabeth, Jamilah, and Zak are joined by author and editor, Travis Nichols. He wrote a wonderful piece for Slate all about his son’s strategic, unique approach to youth baseball. He figured out that if he doesn’t swing at pitches, he’s more likely to get on base. It was incredibly effective… but not in the spirit of the game. What’s a parent to do in that situation?
Recommendations:
Travis recommends voting in the Georgia runoff election.
Zak recommends finding some long, thermal underwear.
Jamilah recommends this chocolate banana cake recipe from Joy of Baking.
Elizabeth recommends art from Andrea Nelson on Instagram.
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| 0:35.2 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are fighting. Slates parenting podcasts for Monday, November 21st. |
| 0:40.2 | The sideline struggles edition. I'm Elizabeth Newcamp. I write the homeschool and family |
| 0:44.6 | travel blog, Dutch Dutch Goose. I'm the mom of three littles Henry, who's 10, Oliver, |
| 0:48.7 | who's eight, and Teddy, who's six. We live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
| 0:53.1 | I'm Zach Rosen. I am host of another show. It's called The Best Advice Show, |
| 0:57.2 | and I live in Detroit with my family. My oldest Noah is five, and my youngest Ami is two. |
| 1:03.4 | I'm Jamila Mew, a writer and contributor to Slates' care and feeding parenting column. |
| 1:08.6 | And Mom to Nahima, who's nine and a half, and we live in LA. |
| 1:12.1 | Today, we're going to be talking about the challenge. One data spacing, |
| 1:15.1 | regarding his son's unique approach to baseball. Does following the rules of the game really matter? |
| 1:20.4 | But first, with Thanksgiving break looming, we wanted to talk about intentions for the |
| 1:25.0 | week ahead, spent with family, friends, and kids home from school, who wants to go first. |
| 1:30.4 | I can go. Next week, we will be having Thanksgiving at my mom's house, and at the same time, |
| 1:37.1 | shears siblings are going to be in town from out of town. All of the grandparents are here |
| 1:41.5 | in Detroit, in Metro Detroit. I just realized today, if I want to, I can not work. |
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