Going to the Zoo During Coronavirus Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Jamilah and Elizabeth are joined by Rumaan Alam to discuss splitting custody during coronavirus. Can one parent, concerned about safety, keep the child without first discussing it with their co-parent? How can this issue be resolved without escalation?
For our new family-friendly segment, Everyone Is Fighting Now, the hosts are joined by Megan Ryder Sanders, a zookeeper at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado. Megan answers questions from kids, including: how the animals are doing, if zookeepers are being paid, and how much elephants eat. To listen to the family-friendly segment zoom ahead to 39:00. Or if you are listening to the Plus episode, go to 34:30.
For Slate Plus, we answer a question from a listener whose three year old is NOT warming up to her new baby brother.
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Recommendations:
Jamilah recommends ensuring that the actions you take while staying at home benefits you in your current situation; instead of quarantine-free future you.
Elizabeth recommends The Rabbit Listened by Cori Doerrfeld.
Rumaan recommends Making Comics by Lynda Barry.
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| 0:58.8 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcasts for Thursday, April 9th, the |
| 1:04.0 | Let's Go to the Zoo During Coronavirus Edition. |
| 1:07.8 | I'm Janila Lemieux, a writer, contributors to Slate's Karen Feeding Parenting |
| 1:11.9 | and Vice Column and mom to Naima, who is seven, oh my God, I can't believe I have a seven-year-old, |
| 1:17.7 | and we live in Los Angeles, California. I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family |
| 1:22.7 | travel blog Dutch Dutch Goose. I'm a mom to three boys, Henry, who's eight today, Oliver, who's five, |
| 1:29.6 | Teddy, who's three. And I'm coming to you from the craft room slash Lego room slash mask-making |
| 1:36.5 | sweatshop in Navar, Florida. I'm Ramon Alam. I'm a writer and father of two boys, Simon, who is 10, |
| 1:43.9 | and Xavier, who is seven, and both of whom are furious that they are not invited to be guests on the podcast this week, as I am privileged to be. |
| 1:52.9 | And we are podcasting from our homes, and so I'm able to peer into Elizabeth's home, and I have never been more jealous of a craft room. |
| 2:01.8 | Okay, wait. |
| 2:02.9 | Your kids are welcome on the podcast. |
| 2:05.1 | Oh, listen, Jamila, don't get it started. |
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