Live from Miami
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Dan and Jamilah are live from the Miami Book Fair where they are joined by Pamela Paul, author of How to Raise a Reader and Adam Mansbach, author of Fuck, Now There Are Two of You. This week the hosts discuss scaring their kids with inappropriate books and making the most out of children with different schedules.
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Recommendations:
Jamilah recommends non-traditional Thanksgiving dinner.
Dan recommends game-ifying Christmas stockings.
Pamela recommends Lucy Knisley’s book You Are New.
Adam recommends the book Laugh Lines: Forty Years Trying to Make Funny People Funnier.
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Podcast produced by Rosemary Belson.
Hosts
Dan Kois is an editor and writer at Slate. He’s the author of How to Be a Family and the co-author of The World Only Spins Forward.
Jamilah Lemieux is a writer, cultural critic, and communications strategist based in Brooklyn, New York.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:06.4 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcasts for Thursday, November 27th, the Live from Miami edition. |
| 0:17.9 | It's a crowd of dozens. I'm Dan Coise. I'm an editor and writer at Slate. I'm the author of How to |
| 0:22.8 | Be a Family, and I'm the dad of Lyra, who is 14, and Harper, who is 12. I'm Jamila Lemieux. |
| 0:29.3 | I am a cultural critic, a contributor to Slate's care and feeding parenting column, and mother |
| 0:36.2 | to Naima, who is six, and we reside in Los Angeles, |
| 0:39.5 | California. |
| 0:40.2 | We are at the Miami Book Fair on a gorgeous sunny Saturday in South Florida. |
| 0:45.6 | This is the kind of day that is an advertisement for the Florida lifestyle, as long as you can |
| 0:50.4 | ignore climate change and the constant threat of Florida man. |
| 0:53.9 | We are really pleased |
| 0:55.2 | to be joined today by two special guests, the author of many New York Times bestselling books, |
| 1:01.3 | and the author of the New York Times bestseller list. First, welcome the writer of Go the Fuck to |
| 1:06.6 | Sleep and the brand new, fuck, now there are two of you, Adam, Man's Back. Adam, tell us about your kids. |
| 1:11.9 | Hey. |
| 1:13.4 | Jesus, Chris, I have so many kids now. |
| 1:16.0 | I have an 11-year-old named Vivian, who also goes by the name professionally the Jazz Wolf. |
| 1:22.5 | I have an almost three-year-old named Xanthe, and a one-year-old named Asa, all of whom are 3,000 |
| 1:29.5 | miles away right now. So make some noise for that, please. Congratulations to you, Adam. |
| 1:36.3 | And we have the head honcho of the New York Times Book Review and the author of How to Raise a Reader, |
| 1:40.9 | Pamela Paul. Pamela, tell us about your kids. I have a 10-year-old, a 12, almost 13-year-old, |
| 1:47.5 | and a 14-year-old. Likewise, have abandoned them temporarily. Yeah, that's the joy of the Miami |
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