Helping a 5-Year-Old Night Owl Rest His Wings

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Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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On this episode: a longtime listener writes in hoping for some bedtime guidance. Their kindergartener is a night owl, and a big reader — but now that sleepless nights are impacting his daytime hours, our listener needs help getting him to sleep. We also go over our week in triumphs and fails, and then, if you’re sticking around for Slate Plus: cooking recommendations for a listener, and their newly-un-allergic-to-wheat daughter. Elizabeth recommends: The Complete Cookbooks for Young Chefs from America's Test Kitchen, and No Knead Bread Jamilah recommends: Kids Cooking Zak recommends: The best cookie recipe but sub in brown butter. Millionaire’s Shortbread. Homemade noodles. Watch: Junior Bakeoff Join us on Facebook and email us at [email protected] 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. You can also call our phone line: (646) 357-9318. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you’ll also be supporting the work we do here on Mom and Dad are Fighting. Sign up now at slate.com/momanddadplus to help support our work. Podcast produced by Maura Currie and Rosemary Belson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Everything is fuel for your creativity with the Lenovo Yoga laptop series.
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0:23.9	Engineered to do it all, that's a laptop evolved with Intel EVO platform.
0:30.0	This episode may contain explicit language.
0:35.6	Welcome to Mom & Data Fighting, Slays Parenting Podcast for Thursday, December 14th,
0:40.8	the Little Night Owl edition. I'm Jamil LeNue, a writer,
0:45.9	who submitted a Slays Care Repeating Parenting column and Mom Tsunayima, who's 10,
0:51.3	and we live in Los Angeles.
0:53.1	I'm Zach Rosen, I host another podcast. It's called The Best Advice Show,
0:56.8	and I'm dad to Lenovo, who's six, and Ami, who's three. We're in Detroit.
1:01.4	I'm Elizabeth Newcamp, I write Family Travel Blog, Dutch Dutch Goose,
1:05.1	and I'm the mom of three little's, Henry, who's 11, Oliver, who's nine, and Teddy, who's seven,
1:10.0	and we live in Tokyo, Japan.
1:12.4	Today on the show, we have a five-year-old who's having trouble flying this week.
1:16.7	His parents decided to read in bed for as long as he wanted.
1:20.2	Great, right? Well, now he won't give up to my life.
1:23.8	We're also going to catch up our week in parenting.
1:26.2	And then, if you're in the Slay Plus Club, we're going to share our favorite recipes to make with kids.
1:31.0	Here's what you'll hear if you have Slay Plus.
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