Don't Forget Grandpa
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: The hosts answers listener questions about a mother who wants to ensure her kids remember their grandpa after he passes and the importance of table manners at dinner. We also welcome Doyin Richards as this week’s special host. As usual, we share our triumphs and fails and offer up some recommendations. On Slate Plus, Doyin shares just why the world thinks he’s a super-dad.
Recommendations:
Rebecca recommends ordering sheet cake from your local grocery store.
Isaac recommends Charades decks for your performative kid and the cookbook,Milk Street: Tuesday Nights, by Christopher Kimball.
Doyin recommends a fool-proof way to get your kids to eat their veggies.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.7 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, June 20th, 2019, |
| 0:11.8 | the Don't Forget Grandpa Edition. I'm Rebecca LaVoy. I'm a journalist and podcaster in New Hampshire, |
| 0:17.1 | and my kids are Henry, who is 17, Teddy, who is 16, and my stepdaughter Lily, who is |
| 0:21.8 | 19. |
| 0:22.7 | And I'm Isaac Butler. |
| 0:23.8 | I'm a writer and podcaster here in Brooklyn, New York, and the father of Iris, who will tell |
| 0:29.2 | you that she is four and a half. |
| 0:31.5 | And my name is Deween Richards. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm a writer, author, keynote speaker, and dad dude, as people say, like dad influencer, whatever the |
| 0:40.3 | heck that means. And I have two daughters, Emmico, who is eight, and my youngest daughter, |
| 0:46.4 | Rayco, who's going to turn six in a few days. Today on the show, we've got a question about |
| 0:51.5 | keeping Grandpa's Spirit alive when we know he's about to pass on |
| 0:56.0 | and a question about daily meal time struggles with a kid who has some attention issues, plus |
| 1:01.7 | triumphs and fails and recommendations. We're going to start the show with triumphs and fails. |
| 1:06.8 | Isaac, do you have a triumph or fail this week? I'm going to go triumph this week. |
| 1:12.9 | So this is sort of a long-term triumph, or I would say, took a lot of setup to kind of come to fruition, but it has recently, which is that our triumph, I think, is really revising and reconsidering kind of the logistics of Iris's day-to-day life. |
| 1:30.4 | What we discovered was that bedtime was a huge disaster. |
| 1:35.6 | She was always procrastinating. |
| 1:36.9 | She just always seemed really upset that the day was ending. |
| 1:39.7 | She just seemed kind of overwhelmed and put out. |
| 1:42.5 | And we just decided to try to think about kind of what |
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