How To Parent With a Disability

How To!

Slate Magazine

Business, Education, How To, Self-improvement

4.4 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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At least 10 percent of parents in the U.S. are disabled, but Andrea can’t seem to find parenting advice on disability and accessibility. On this episode of How To!, Carvell Wallace brings on Jessica Slice, author of the new book Unfit Parent: A Disabled Mother Challenges an Inaccessible World, to help Andrea reimagine parenthood. If you liked this episode check out: How To Date With a Disability and How To Become a Parent Overnight. Do you have a problem that needs solving? Send us a note at [email protected] or leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001 and we might have you on the show. Subscribe for free on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen. The show is produced by Rosemary Belson, with Kevin Bendis. Our technical director is Merritt Jacob and our supervising producer is Joel Meyer. Want more How To!? Subscribe to Slate Plus to unlock exclusive bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of the How To! show page. Or, visit slate.com/howtoplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:52.0	There's so little out there about disabled parenting.
0:55.0	I feel almost desperate for the map, you know.
0:59.0	Welcome to how to.
1:00.7	I'm Carvel Wallace.
1:02.2	What can a person say about parenting that hasn't already been said?
1:07.3	It's nonstop.
1:08.6	It's overwhelming.
1:09.6	It's mind-blowing.
1:10.7	And it's intensely rewarding.
1:12.6	But most of all, parenting is physical. You're carrying your kids around. You're making dinner.
1:18.6	You're chasing toddlers through grocery stores and parking lots. You're picking up toys.
1:23.6	Parenting is often a physical act as much as it is an emotional one.
1:28.3	So what happens if you are a parent, but you have limits on how physical you can be because you have a disability?
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