Mom & Dad: Live from Miami

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4.2 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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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. For Slate Plus, the hosts discuss if parenting really is harder nowadays—or do we just hear more about the trials and tribulations in books, blogs or even, ahem, podcasts… Sign up for Slate Plus here. 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. 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 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:06.0	I'm pregnant
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0:10.0	I've been all my electricity that's all
0:12.0	don't think I should even be in here.
0:14.0	A new series of the Bafter Award winning time.
0:18.0	You tell anyone and I mean anyone about me I will kill you starring Jody Whitaker tomorrow Lawrence and
0:26.0	Bella Ramsey time watch on BBC I player the following podcast contains explicit language The Live From Miami Edition.
0:43.0	It's a crowd of dozens.
0:47.0	I'm Dan Coise.
0:50.0	I'm an editor and writer at Slate.
0:52.0	I'm the author of How to Be a Family and I'm the dad of
0:54.4	Lyra who is 14 and Harper who is 12. I'm Jamila Lemieux. I am a cultural
1:00.6	critic, a contributor to Slate's Care and Feeding
1:04.7	Column, and Mother to Naima, who is six and we reside in Los Angeles,
1:09.5	California.
1:10.4	We are at the Miami Book Fair on a gorgeous sunny Saturday in South Florida.
1:15.0	This is the kind of day that is an advertisement for the Florida lifestyle as long as you can ignore climate change and the constant threat of Florida man.
1:24.4	We are really pleased to be joined today by two special guests, the author of many New York Times
1:30.1	best-selling books and the author of the New York Times Best Seller list.
1:34.0	First, welcome the writer of Go the Fuck to Sleep and the brand new,
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