Mom & Dad: The “I Love You, Even When You’re Mad” Edition

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🗓️ 17 February 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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On this week’s episode: Zak, Jamilah, and Elizabeth answer a complicated question about navigating unwanted attention—especially if the attention may be chalked up to a child’s appearance. Then they are joined by Deborah Farmer Kris, parent educator, education journalist, children’s book author, and founder of Parenthood365. They talk about how to help kids identify and manage their emotions—and what parents can learn themselves in the process. Check out Deborah’s new book I Love You All the Time. On Slate Plus, they discuss Just How Helpful Is Childhood Therapy? by Melinda Wenner Moyer. Recommendations: Elizabeth recommends Night Zookeeper. Jamilah recommends Hey Girl! empowerment journal. Zak recommends Teen Lives, Interrupted by COVID. Listener-recommended Resources: Judi's House resources When Dinosaurs Die: A Guide to Understanding Death When Someone Very Special Dies Help Me Say Goodbye Love is Forever Lifetimes The Invisible String Finding the Words If you want to listen to the original question, here’s the episode: The “Taking a Toddler to a Funeral” Edition. Join us on Facebook and email us at [email protected] to ask us new questions, tell us what you thought of today’s show, and give us ideas about 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	This episode contains explicit language.
0:05.2	Welcome to Mom and Dad Our Fighting. Slates Parenting Podcast for Thursday, February 17th.
0:10.4	The, I love you even when you're mad edition. I'm Zach Rosen. I host the Best of Play Show
0:15.8	Podcast. I live in Detroit with my family. My daughter Noah is four, and my son Ami is one.
0:21.9	I'm Jameela Lemieux. I am a writer, contributor to Slates' care and feeding,
0:26.2	parenting column, and mom Tamayima, who is nearly nine, and we live in Los Angeles.
0:32.0	I'm Elizabeth Newcamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog Dutch Dutch Goose. I'm the mom
0:36.5	to three littles. Henry, who's nine, Oliver, who's seven, and Teddy, who's five. We live in Colorado
0:42.0	Springs, Colorado. On today's show, we are tackling a rather interesting question about navigating
0:47.9	unwanted attention. Our letter writer's little kid doesn't love the attention she's getting for
0:52.4	looking different than other kids in her area. What should they do? Then we welcome Deborah
0:57.0	Farmer Chris, a child development expert, NPR contributor, and PBS Kids columnist, to teach us
1:02.4	how to help our kids and ourselves understand that all emotions are okay. And on Slate Plus,
1:08.4	we'll be discussing a fascinating piece by science journalist Melinda Wanner-Moyer.
1:13.7	She talked to grownups looking back on their experiences with child therapy.
1:18.0	But before we get into all that goodness, we received a very personal and informative
1:22.6	listener letter following the episode a few weeks back about the impending death of a grandmother.
1:27.8	Hi, y'all. My husband died by suicide in 2018, when my daughters were ages four and two.
1:33.8	I came to learn that there are tons of resources available to help kids learn about death and
1:38.8	process their grief. Since he died, I've become a mom who speaks openly about death with my kids.
1:45.1	I'm also open with this part of our lives with new families we meet.
1:49.2	Of course, this is a great tragedy, but this experience has given all of us a new level of empathy
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