Jesus, Take the Wheel!
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode, Rebecca, Jamilah and Dan answer listener questions from a mom who wants to better deal with her kid’s identity and a dad who is insisting his kid learn to drive. As usual, we share our triumphs and fails and offer up some recommendations. For Slate Plus, the hosts answer a bonus listener question. Sign up for Slate Plus here.
Recommendations:
Rebecca recommends the app, Wordscapes.
Jamilah recommends making your home colorful.
Dan recommends the lemon and ginger seltzer from Trader Joe’s.
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Podcast produced by Jess Jupiter.
Hosts
Rebecca Lavoie, Jamilah Lemieux and Dan Kois
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.7 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday, October 24th. |
| 0:11.4 | The Jesus Take the Wheel edition. I'm Rebecca LaVoy, a journalist and host of the podcast, |
| 0:16.6 | Crime Writers On. I live in New Hampshire, and my kids are Henry, who's 18, Teddy, who's |
| 0:20.9 | 16 and a half, and my stepdaughter, Lily, who's 19. I'm Dan Coice. I'm a writer and editor at Slate and the author of How to Be a Family. I live in Arlington, Virginia, with my kids, Lyra, who's 14, and Harper, who is 12. Hi, I'm Jimmy LaMew, a writer and a contributor to Slate's parenting column, Karen Feeding, |
| 0:38.6 | and I am based in Inglewood, California, along with my daughter Naima, who's six. |
| 0:43.0 | Today on the show, we've got a question from a parent wondering how much she should be involved |
| 0:47.6 | in her daughter's interactions around gender and identity and personal style, plus a question |
| 0:53.5 | about a very reluctant team driver. |
| 0:56.8 | And on Slate Plus, we're talking about navigating the busy and expensive world of extracurricular |
| 1:02.3 | activities. |
| 1:03.4 | If you want to hear that conversation, join us on Slate Plus at slate.com slash mom and dad |
| 1:09.1 | plus. |
| 1:10.3 | But first, it's the time in the show where we make ourselves a little bit vulnerable or |
| 1:15.3 | just brag a whole lot. |
| 1:16.4 | It's time for triumphs and fails. |
| 1:18.8 | Jamila Lemieux, do you have a triumph or fail this week? |
| 1:21.9 | Well, I was very excited to come in with the triumph. |
| 1:24.6 | But in the past few hours, I have racked up yet another fail. |
| 1:29.8 | And I think this one is a bigger fail than my triumph was a win. |
| 1:35.1 | My daughter, Naima, is sitting across from me in the studio right now because she had, quote, |
| 1:41.8 | unquote, a headache and a stomach ache. |
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