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Mom & Dad: Home Alone

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4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by Everlane. Check out your personalized collection today at everlane.com/momanddad.  On this week’s episode: Dan, Jamilah, and guest host Katherine Goldstein answer listener questions from a parent looking for ways to enjoy family visits and a neighbor who is worried for the kids next door who were left behind. For Slate Plus, what should you NOT say to someone expecting twins. Sign up for Slate Plus here. Recommendations: Jamilah recommends matching outfits with your kid. Katherine recommends Shrinky Dinks as a creative way to pass a few hours. Dan recommends That Was Awkward: The Art and Etiquette of the Awkward Hug from Emily Flake. Join us on Facebook and email us at momanddad@slate.com to tell us what you thought of today’s show and give us ideas for what we should talk about in future episodes. Got questions that you’d like us to answer? Call and leave us a message at 424-255-7833. Podcast produced by Rosemary Belson. Hosts Jamilah Lemieux is a writer, cultural critic, and communications strategist based in California. 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. Katherine Goldstein is a journalist as well as the creator and host of The Double Shift, a reported, narrative podcast about a new generation of working mothers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The following podcast

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contains explicit language.

0:52.0

Welcome to mom and dad are fighting.

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Slates parenting podcast for Thursday, December 5th, the Home Alone Edition.

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I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, contributor to Slate's

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Karen Feeding Parenting Column, and mom to Naima who's six and we live in

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Los Angeles, California.

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I'm Dan Coise. I'm a writer and editor at Slate and the author of How to Be a Family.

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I'm the dad of Lyra who's 14 and Harper who's 12 and we live in Arlington, Virginia.

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And I'm Catherine Goldstein.

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I am the creator and host of the Double Shift Podcast, which is a show about a new generation of working mothers.

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