Mom And Dad Are Fighting: The Be Present Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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🗓️ 16 January 2014
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Slate's Dan Kois and Allison Benedikt discuss the pros and cons of summer camp and are joined by blogger Carla Naumburg to talk about mindful parenting.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:03.2 | Welcome to mom and dad are fighting. |
| 0:10.2 | Slate parenting podcast for January 16, 2014, The B Present Edition. |
| 0:16.3 | I'm Dan Coise, an editor at Slate. |
| 0:18.5 | I'm the dad of Lyra, who is 8, and Harper who is 6. |
| 0:22.6 | And I'm Allison Benedict, also an editor at Slate and the mother of Harry, 5, Sam, 3 this week, |
| 0:29.4 | and Wally 11 months old. |
| 0:31.5 | Happy birthday, Sam. Thank you. |
| 0:33.0 | So today, in today's episode, we're going to talk about mindful parenting with Carla Nomburg, who blogs on the subject |
| 0:40.0 | at Psych Central. |
| 0:41.7 | Is mindful parenting just another parenting trend that makes me |
| 0:44.7 | feel bad that I can't fulfill its requirements or can it actually help me not yell at my |
| 0:49.4 | kids all the time? In our second segment we'll talk about Summer camp sign up which is upon us already and argue about the various philosophies of summer parenting for kids both young and old |
| 0:59.2 | But first our parenting fails and triumphs of the week. |
| 1:02.7 | Allison, you want to go first? |
| 1:03.7 | Sure, I have a triumph. |
| 1:04.9 | This is my first triumph. |
| 1:06.4 | Hooray, ever. |
| 1:08.1 | Ever, right. |
| 1:09.1 | It's the small one. |
| 1:10.9 | But my five-year-old... Small steps. Right, right. My five-year-old- Small steps. |
| 1:13.7 | Right, right. |
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