I’m Dating A Single Mom

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

Slate Podcasts

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

On this episode: Jamilah, Zak and Elizabeth answer a question from someone who’s not a parent — and not even a stepmom, yet! This member of the Slate Parenting Facebook group is dating a single mom and wondering how to make meeting the kids and joining the family as seamless as possible. We’ll help her out and then check in and share what’s on our minds this week. Then, if you’re hanging out for the Slate Plus Playground, we're talking about how to handle it when your kid is being an un-fun butthead. If you’re not part of the Slate Plus community, we hope you’ll consider joining! Keep reading to learn how. Jamilah’s check-in: gig hunting. Elizabeth’s check-in: island time. Zak’s check-in: sick season. 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 to hang out with us on the Plus Playground every week for a whole additional grab-bag of content — and you’ll get an ad-free experience across the network. And you’ll also be supporting the work we do here on Care and Feeding. Sign up now at slate.com/careplus – or try it out on Apple Podcasts. Podcast produced by Maura Currie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey folks, it's Charles Duhigg, the former host of Slate's advice podcast, How To, and the author of The Power of Habit.
0:07.4	I'm teaming up with Slate again for a mini-series based on my latest book, Super Communicators, How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection.
0:15.1	It's a deep dive into how to have better conversations about the neuroscience behind how we connect with each other and why the
0:21.6	right questions can transform complete strangers into immediate friends.
0:25.6	The very first time I did this was at a conference.
0:29.6	These were all like C-suite executives.
0:32.6	That's the psychologist Nick Epley.
0:34.6	He paired all those execs up and then he told them that they had to
0:37.8	ask and answer a really personal question. When's the last time you cried in front of another
0:43.8	person? And you could sort of feel the whole room just groan. After 10 minutes, everybody was deep
0:51.2	in conversation. I finally get to 20 minutes. A couple of them were hugging each other.
0:56.3	It was kind of magical that moment, actually.
0:59.0	Join me, Charles Duhigg, for super communicators, wherever you get your podcasts.
1:06.6	I'm Leon Nefok, and I'm the host of Slow Burn, Watergate.
1:11.0	Before I started working on this show, everything I knew about Watergate came from the movie All the President's Men.
1:17.0	Do you remember how it ends?
1:18.9	Woodward and Bernstein are sitting with their typewriters clacking away.
1:21.9	And then there's this rapid montage of newspaper stories about campaign aides and White House officials getting convicted of crimes,
1:28.3	about audio tapes coming out that proved Nixon's involvement in the cover-up.
1:31.3	The last story we see is Nixon resigns.
1:34.3	It takes a little over a minute in the movie.
1:38.3	In real life, it took about two years.
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