Indoor Parent Edition

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

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Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode: Elizabeth, Jamilah and Dan debate if an indoor-loving mom needs to suck it up, sign her kid up for soccer, and actually go to games.

Then, Jamilah sits down with Virginia Sole-Smith, journalist and author of The Eating Instinct and Burnt Toast, a newsletter about parenting while navigating diet culture and fatphobia. They talk about helping kids develop healthy relationships with food and their body, especially when parents are struggling with those issues.

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Recommendations:

Dan recommends watching Office Space.

Jamilah recommends Vosges’ Smoke and Stout Caramel Chocolate Bar

Elizabeth recommends getting your kid a CamelBak Mini M.U.L.E.

Listener Recommendations:

Slumber Party Predicament Edition, if you wanted to listen to the full advice for the mother who lost her daughter to stillbirth.

Perfectly Imperfect Family by Amie Lands.

Someone Came Before You by Pat Schwiebert.

The Invisible String by Patrice Karst.

Sun Kisses, Moon Hugs by Susan Schaefer Bernardo.

Love You Forever by Robert Munsch.

Wish by Matthew Cordell.

Join us on Facebook and email us at momanddad@slate.com 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.

Podcast produced by Rosemary Belson.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:05.0	Welcome to mom and daughter fighting, Slate's parenting podcasts for Thursday, April 29th, the indoor parent edition.
0:12.9	I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschooling family travel blog, Dutch Dutch, goose.
0:17.0	I'm the mom to three littles, Henry who's nine, Oliver, who's six, and Teddy who's four.
0:21.9	And we are currently nomadic on our drive to Colorado Springs. I'm in Atlanta for the week,
0:27.9	visiting with my parents. Celebrating Nomadlands Historic Oscar win. Yeah. I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer,
0:35.3	contributors to Slate's Cairn feeding parenting column and mom to Naima, who is 8, and we live in Los Angeles, California.
0:42.4	I'm Dan Cois. I'm a writer at Slate. I'm the author of the book How to Be a Family. And I'm the dad of Harper, who's 13, and Lyra, who turned 16. Today, the day of the podcast comes out, happy birthday, Lyra. We live in Arlington, Virginia.
0:56.6	Happy birthday, Lyra. She'll read your birthday wishes in the transcript. She'll see Lyra pop up 10 times.
1:04.4	Lyra, Lyra, Lyra. We want her to know that we wish her a happy birthday. Yes. Well, on today's show, we have a question from a mother who hates nature with a passion.
1:14.0	Does she have to suck it up and do outdoor activities with her kids?
1:17.6	Then Jamila will be talking to journalist, an author of The Eating Instinct, Virginia
1:22.0	Sol Smith, about raising kids to have healthy relationships to food and body image when you, as their parent,
1:28.6	are struggling with those same issues. On Slate Plus, if you're in a couple, who's the one who
1:33.8	makes sure to sign up for camp? We'll be discussing a recent New York Times piece on the gender
1:38.6	gap in cognitive labor. But first, let's start this week with triumphs and fails. Jamila,
1:43.9	what do you have for us?
1:45.2	I have a triumph.
1:47.1	I took my vaccinated ass to Oakland for four days, and I felt like a person.
1:56.1	And I'm so glad that I did that.
1:58.8	I was anxious and nervous and felt weird about traveling at all, but I realized that, I don't know, I'm an American.
2:06.7	And I guess selfishness is just what we do.
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