Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Good Enough Friends

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

Slate Audio

Kids & Family, Society & Culture, Parenting

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

On this episode: Dan Kois, former Mom and Dad are Fighting co-host, delivers an essay called Good Enough Friends. The piece explores the evolution of teenage friendship, online connections, and the awkward beauty of not being able to mute yourself IRL.

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0:32.3	Welcome to Mom & Adder fighting. Slate's parenting podcast from Monday, June 12th,
0:36.4	the good enough friends edition. I'm Zach Rosen, I make the best advice show podcast,
0:41.6	and I am Dad Tenoa, who's five and Ami, who's two. We live in Detroit, Michigan.
0:47.0	I'm Elizabeth Newkamp, I write the Home's Blue Family Travel Blog Dutch Dutch Guests.
0:50.7	I'm the mom of three little's, Henry, who's 11, all for his nine, and Teddy, who's six.
0:55.0	We live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I'm Janila Newkamp, I'm a writer and
0:59.7	contributor to Slate's care and feeding parenting column. I'm Mom Tanayima, who is 10, and we live in LA.
1:07.2	Today on the show, we're going to be exploring teenage friendship and how it has,
1:11.3	or maybe hasn't changed over the years. Former Mom & Dad are fighting post Dan Cois,
1:15.8	has a special essay he'll deliver called Good Enough Friends. After that,
1:20.4	to meal at Elizabeth and I will be back with recommendations and a few more kid holidays.
1:25.2	All of that after this quick break.
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