Exclusive Besties
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: The hosts answer listener questions about exclusive best friends and a kid that uses an offensive word during a fight. As usual, we share our triumphs and fails and offer up some recommendations. For Slate Plus, we talk to Jamilah about her Care and Feeding column.
Recommendations:
Dan recommends going on a kid-led road trip.
Jamilah recommends saying yes.
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Podcast produced by Jess Jupiter.
Hosts Dan Kois, Jamilah Lemieux
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Transcript
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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, July 25th, the exclusive besties edition. |
| 0:13.6 | I'm Dan Cois. I'm an editor at Slate and the author of The Fourthcoming How to Be a Family. |
| 0:18.1 | I'm the dad of Lyra who's 14 and Harper who's 12. |
| 0:21.7 | Rebecca is out this week. |
| 0:22.9 | She will be back next week. |
| 0:24.0 | But I am delighted to reintroduce this podcast's new exclusive bestie, our new full-time |
| 0:30.4 | third host, Jamila Lemieux. |
| 0:32.1 | Hi, Jamila. |
| 0:32.8 | Hi. |
| 0:33.7 | Yay. |
| 0:34.1 | I'm so excited to be here, y'all. |
| 0:36.1 | I am Jamila Lemieux. |
| 0:38.0 | I am a writer, editor, occasionally, a communication strategist, and most importantly, mother to Naima, who is six. |
| 0:46.6 | Hello and welcome. |
| 0:47.9 | I'm very, very happy you're here. |
| 0:50.1 | Today on the show, we've got a question from a parent about a pair of best friends who are maybe getting a little too tight and a question about teaching your kids about racial slurs, plus triumphs and fails and recommendations. |
| 1:02.8 | Let's start with triumphs and fails. |
| 1:04.5 | Jamila, do you have a triumph or a fail today? |
| 1:08.9 | So I am, I'm struggling with where I want to file this. It's ultimately going to be a |
| 1:15.6 | triumph right now. It's feeling like a fail. My family is in the middle of a move from Los Angeles, |
| 1:22.4 | from New York, Brooklyn specifically to Los Angeles. My ex, his wife, their son, and our daughter departed about two weeks ago for L.A. |
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