Enjoy the Ball With Abby Wambach
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🗓️ 8 October 2020
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Elizabeth, Jamilah and Dan are joined by two-time Olympic gold medalist and FIFA World Cup champion, Abby Wambach. She has some advice for raising a leader, on and off the field. She also talks about inspiring the next generation of leaders in her new book, Wolfpack (Young Readers Edition).
Then Elizabeth, Jamilah and Dan debate how to deal with parents who shout at their kids from the sidelines.
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Recommendations:
Dan recommends Cribbage, a game with the perfect combo of skill and luck.
Jamilah recommends Schitt's Creek. If you need a place to start watching. Slate’s Marissa Martinelli has you covered. Read her Gateway Episodes piece here.
Elizabeth recommends the Squatchi Children's Shoe Sizer.
Additional Recommendations:
Catch our LIVE Mom and Dad are Fighting show Wednesday, Oct. 14 at 8:00 p.m. ET.
The Kids Are Asleep, the hilarious Slate Live show. Catch it via Slate’s Facebook or YouTube on Thursdays at 10:00 p.m. ET / 7:00 p.m. PT.
US Youth Soccer’s sideline etiquette.
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.
On this week’s episode: Elizabeth, Jamilah and Dan are joined by two-time Olympic gold medalist and FIFA World Cup champion, Abby Wambach. She has some advice for raising a leader, on and off the field. She also talks about inspiring the next generation of leaders in her new book, Wolfpack (Young Readers Edition).
Then Elizabeth, Jamilah and Dan debate how to deal with parents who shout at their kids from the sidelines.
In Slate Plus: We have a bonus round of classic sports ‘Triumphs and Fails.’ Sign up for Slate Plus.
Recommendations:
Dan recommends Cribbage, a game with the perfect combo of skill and luck.
Jamilah recommends Schitt's Creek. If you need a place to start watching. Slate’s Marissa Martinelli has you covered. Read her Gateway Episodes piece here.
Elizabeth recommends the Squatchi Children's Shoe Sizer.
Additional Recommendations:
Catch our LIVE Mom and Dad are Fighting show Wednesday, Oct. 14 at 8:00 p.m. ET.
The Kids Are Asleep, the hilarious Slate Live show. Catch it via Slate’s Facebook or YouTube on Thursdays at 10:00 p.m. ET / 7:00 p.m. PT.
US Youth Soccer’s sideline etiquette.
Finally, here’s the delightful, if not quasi-terrifying, screenshot of Elizabeth showing off their Teddy Ruxpin. Enjoy!
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.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.6 | Welcome to Mom and Daughter Fighting, Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday, October 8th, the Enjoy the Ball edition with Abby Wambach. I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch, Goose. I'm the mom to three littles, Henry 8, Oliver 6, and Teddy, who is now four. |
| 0:23.1 | I am located right now into Bar, Florida, but we have another hurricane headed out of us, so we'll see where I am next week. |
| 0:30.7 | I'm Jamila Lemieux. I am a writer, contributor to Slate's Karen Feeding Parenting column, and host of Slates. The kids are asleep and mom to Naima, who is seven, and we live in Los Angeles, California. I'm Dan Cois. I'm a writer at Slate. I'm the author of The Book, How to Be a Family. I'm the dad of Lyra, who's 15, and Harper, who's 13. We live in Arlington, Virginia, and I'm excited to talk about |
| 0:55.7 | sports. Yes, well, we have a special sports show for you listeners today. We'll be joined by |
| 1:02.2 | the one and only Abby Wambach. For those of you that don't know, Abby has won two Olympic gold medals |
| 1:07.4 | with Team USA. She's a FIFA woman's World Cup champion and is in the National |
| 1:12.4 | Soccer Hall of Fame. And she'll be here with us today to answer questions about helping an |
| 1:17.0 | athletic kid harness his potential. Then we'll be answering a question about dealing with those |
| 1:21.9 | parents yelling from the sidelines. You know the ones, the ones who are so intense about the game |
| 1:26.8 | that you think they were either the coach of a college team or had money on the line. And as always, we'll have triumphs and fails and recommendations. Usually we'd save this for the business, but we're so excited we want to let you know now. If you've ever listened to us and wondered, hmm, I wonder what their faces look like. Well, you're in luck. We have a live |
| 1:44.8 | mom and daughter fighting show next week, Wednesday, October 14th. We'll be live on Facebook and |
| 1:50.6 | YouTube. It's at 8 p.m. Eastern, so mark your calendars. Plus, you'll be able to ask us questions |
| 1:55.9 | live. It will be fun, so don't miss it. One more time, we'll be streaming live on Slate's YouTube and Facebook pages, as well as in the parenting group at 8 p.m. Eastern on October 14th. |
| 2:07.5 | For links and more information, go to slate.com slash live. |
| 2:12.3 | All right. |
| 2:13.3 | Jamila, do you have a triumph or a fail for us this week? |
| 2:16.6 | I have what could be categorized as |
| 2:19.2 | either, depending on how you can view it. So the other day, Naima and I were at our new digs. We were |
| 2:26.2 | running around trying to get stuff. I don't know. This was like maybe the last day. Like, |
| 2:30.2 | we moved for days. Like, I definitely spent one day driving back and forth between the two houses. And I think this was that day. So I was also like trying to feed her because like I don't eat all day. You know, like I can go all day without eating. I won't think about food. And then she's like, um, hi, you have to feed and water me like regularly. And I was like, oh yeah. And so I go to my super mom snack or lunch. Hopefully it was a |
| 2:53.3 | snack. I can't remember of two croissants from Starbucks because one is inadequate, but we're also |
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