Master of LEGO Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Dan, Jamilah, and Elizabeth revisit last week’s quarantine pod discussion and talk to Dr. Saskia Popescu about the risks of being in contact with another family during stay-at-home orders. Plus, LEGO Masters contestant Boone Langston joins to talk about awesome builds, the show and how kids can up their LEGO game. 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 51:00. Or if you are listening to the Plus episode, go to 45:13.
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Recommendations:
Elizabeth recommends being on top of your Mother’s Day plans. If you need an idea, this questionnaire is a great, free project to do with your young ones.
Jamilah recommends What's the Big Secret?: Talking about Sex with Girls and Boys by Laurie Krasny Brown and Marc Brown.
Dan recommends Anomia, a card game similar to Scattergories on speed.
Extra reading recommendations:
You’re single. You live alone. Are you allowed to have a coronavirus buddy? By Sigal Samuel
Why some kids are happier right now, and other unexpected effects of quarantine by Elissa Strauss.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.7 | Hello and welcome to mom and dadder fighting, Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday, April 30th, the Master of Lego edition. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Dan Coise. I'm a writer at Slate. I live in Arlington, Virginia, with my two kids, Lyra, who is now 15, and Harper, who is 12. |
| 0:22.3 | I'm Jamila Lemieux. I'm a writer and cultural critic, and mom to Naima, who is seven, |
| 0:26.9 | and we live in Los Angeles, California. I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family |
| 0:31.8 | travel blog, Dutch Dutch, Goose. I'm a mom to three boys, Henry 8, Oliver 5, and Teddy 3. |
| 0:38.1 | And I'm coming to you from the Lego Room in my house and Navar, Florida. |
| 0:42.6 | This week, we are continuing a discussion from last week by popular demand. |
| 0:47.1 | A lot of listeners were super pissed about our conversation about quarantine bubbles |
| 0:50.2 | and about the informal and formal pods that families are creating with other families |
| 0:54.4 | during quarantine. |
| 0:55.5 | So today, we're talking to epidemiologist, Dr. Saskia Popescu, about the personal and public |
| 1:00.8 | health risks around forming such quarantine bubbles. |
| 1:04.1 | Will she yell at us? |
| 1:05.3 | Let's see. |
| 1:06.5 | And then for our all ages, everyone is fighting now segment. |
| 1:09.0 | We're joined by Lego Masters hero Boone Langston, answering questions from us and from your kids. |
| 1:15.3 | We'll put a timestamp in the show notes so families can find the segment. |
| 1:18.9 | As always, we will have triumphs and fails and recommendations. |
| 1:22.2 | Let's start with Triumph or Fails. |
| 1:23.7 | Elizabeth, do you have a triumph or fail for us today? |
| 1:26.4 | I'm not really sure whether it's a triumph or fail. |
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