Make Believe Murder Edition

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

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Parenting, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

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🗓️ 14 May 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode: Dan, Jamilah, and Elizabeth answer a question from a parent worried about pretend play that involves imagined violence. Plus, we have personalized game recommendations with Jessica Waldock from the homeschool and parent blog, The Waldock Way. It’s our Everyone Is Fighting Now segment this week, and it’s for all ages. To listen to Everyone Is Fighting Now, zoom ahead to about 35:50. For Slate Plus, Slate’s Heather Schwedel explains the baby name that stumped the world. Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on MADAF each week, and no ads. Sign up now to listen and support our work. Recommendations: Dan recommends signing up your kids for Outschool, which has Zoom classes for different age levels. Plus, the classes are really cheap! Jamilah recommends revisiting the classic, and relatively progressive, show: The Golden Girls. Elizabeth recommends ordering the Gottwals Books Survival Packs, from Gottwals Books in Georgia. Here's the order form for the personalized pack. Game Recommendations: The Waldock Way’s Gameschool guide. The 40 Greatest Family Games by Noel Murray The Waldock Way’s printable family Game Night in a Bag. Dragonwood and the new edition, Dragonrealm. Hero Kids Race to the Treasure! Wildcraft! An Herbal Adventure Game Yahtzee Rummikub Qwirkle Blokus or Blokus Duo Skip-Bo Las Vegas Carcassonne Stone Age Hedbanz Chess Mastermind Guess Who? Charades Hangman Qwixx Words With Friends Tsuro Board Game Arena Codenames and the unofficial online version. Online cards Telestrations Apples to Apples Rush Hour Chocolate Fix Balance Beans Kanoodle SmartGames Herbaceous Spot It! Bears vs Babies Monopoly Deal Suspend Count Your Chickens Hoot Owl Hoot Mermaid Island Dinosaur Escape Red Light Green Light 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 for what we should talk about in future episodes. Podcast produced by Rosemary Belson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.2	Welcome to mom and daughter fighting,
0:07.4	Slate parenting podcast for Thursday, May 14th, the Make Believe murder edition. I'm Elizabeth New Camp, I write the homeschool and
0:16.1	family travel blog Dutch, Dutch Goose. I'm mom to three boys, Henry 8, Oliver
0:21.2	who's now 6, and Teddy 3.
0:24.0	And I'm located in Navarre, Florida.
0:26.9	I'm Jemila Lemieux.
0:28.2	I'm a writer, contributor to Slates Karen Feeding
0:31.2	Parenting Column, and Mom to Naima who is seven and we live in
0:35.2	Los Angeles, California.
0:37.0	I'm Dan Coise.
0:38.0	I'm a writer for Slate except for I'm off on FMLA leave this month. Also I'm the dad of Lyra who's 15 and Harper
0:45.8	who's 12 were all sheltered in place in Arlington Virginia.
0:50.3	This week we're debating make-believe murder. What do you do about pretend play that turns
0:56.1	pretend violent? Is that play normalizing violence or just innocent? For our all-ages everyone is fighting now segment we are going to be doing
1:05.7	a massive game recommendation session. Is your family sick of the games in your house
1:11.2	need some new ideas?
1:12.9	Are you looking for single-player games?
1:15.5	What about games for sneaky learning?
1:18.0	We'll have a game rack for you.
1:20.0	We'll put a time stamp in the show notes
1:21.8	so families can find this segment.
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