Grandma Has a Favorite Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Dan, Jamilah, and Elizabeth answer a question from a parent wondering if it’s okay to benefit from the grandparent babysitting service when the other grandkids are left out. They also answer a question from a soon-to-be step-aunt who wants to make a good first impression on the pre-teen.
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Recommendations:
Dan recommends The Sunday Read: ‘Facing the Wind’ by Carvell Wallace.
Elizabeth recommends constructing outdoor toy car ramps using deck railing.
Jamilah recommends The DB Method, if you are looking to maximize your gluteus maximus.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.8 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcasts for Thursday, June 25th. |
| 0:11.0 | The Grandma Has a Favorite Edition. |
| 0:13.5 | I'm Dan Coise. I'm a writer at Slate and the author of The Book, How to Be a Family. |
| 0:17.4 | I'm the dad of Lyra, who's 15, and Harper, who's 12, and we are a holdup in |
| 0:21.7 | Harlington, Virginia. I'm Jamila Lemieux. I'm a writer, a contributor to Slate's Karen feeding parenting column, and mom to Naima, who is seven, and we live in Los Angeles, California. I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch, Dutch I'm mom to three littles, Henry 8, Oliver 6, and Teddy 3, and I'm currently into Bar, Florida. |
| 0:43.0 | Today on the show, we've got a question about intra-family strife caused by grandparent favoritism. |
| 0:49.7 | We'll also give advice to a soon-to-be step-auntant, wondering how she can welcome her newest niece and family. |
| 0:55.2 | As always, we've got triumphs, we've got fails, we've got recommendations. |
| 0:59.9 | Let's start with triumphs and or fails. |
| 1:02.3 | Jamila, what do you have for us this week? |
| 1:04.8 | All right, this week I have a triumph. |
| 1:07.5 | Naima is TikTok obsessed. |
| 1:10.2 | We have limited her time on the app and what she's able to watch on there. |
| 1:15.4 | We monitor it. |
| 1:16.8 | I wish that she didn't love TikTok so much, but like I think I mentioned before, that when |
| 1:21.3 | I saw the page she created and the bio was TikTok lets all the little actors in me be set |
| 1:26.6 | free, I was like, okay, I have to |
| 1:29.3 | support this in some way, shape, or form. And so while we're working on other ways for her to |
| 1:34.0 | hone and use her really good editing skills, you know, like she creates content, her TikToks are |
| 1:41.9 | not just, hey, it's me doing a dance. It's like they're |
| 1:44.1 | little mini movies and there, you know, there's graphics and music and she's just so creative |
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