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Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

Is My Son’s Play Becoming Toxic Masculinity?

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

Slate Podcasts

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Note: This episode contains discussions of murder and grief. Listener discretion is advised between 6:30 and 12:00 of this episode. You can read more about Sam Woll, a close friend of Zak’s family, here. On this episode: Jamilah Lemieux, Elizabeth Newcamp, and Zak Rosen help a listener who’s worried that her son’s play is skewing a little too much toward good guys, bad guys, and violence. What’s the difference between normal play and a red flag – and how can we make sure boys want to include girls? Zak found two great resources for this listener that we want to share: an article about violent play from Parents.com, and a book called Under Deadman's Skin: Discovering the Meaning of Children's Violent Play. We also go over our week in triumphs and fails — and then, if you’re sticking around for Slate Plus, we discuss an episode of RadioLab that got us thinking about how kids change our perception of time. 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Spark your creativity with the Sims.

0:04.0

Sometimes you might feel like you're not creative

0:07.0

and you have to go and search of your creative spark again.

0:10.0

Maybe this is catching up with creative friends,

0:13.0

experimenting with a new look or trying out a new recipe

0:16.0

and thanks to the Sims, inspiration is just one game

0:19.0

and one spark away.

0:21.0

Ready to spark something?

0:23.0

Download the Sims 4 and play for free.

0:27.0

Warning, today's episode contains some talk of violence.

0:31.0

It's going to come during the Triumph and Fail section

0:34.0

starting at around the six and a half minute mark

0:37.0

and go to about 12 minutes in the episode.

0:39.0

So that's the window.

0:40.0

You can skip if you don't want to hear that today.

0:43.0

Thanks.

0:47.0

Welcome to Mom and Dad are fighting.

0:49.0

Slaves parenting podcasts for Thursday, November 2nd,

0:52.0

the Boys and Their Toys edition.

0:56.0

I'm Jamila Mube, a writer,

0:58.0

contributor to Slaves' care and feeding parents in column

1:01.0

and Mom to Naima who is 10 and we live in Los Angeles.

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