Mom & Dad: The World Is Messy and Ugly. Do My Kids Need to Know?

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🗓️ 16 November 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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On this episode: Zak, Jamilah and Elizabeth help a listener who’s struggling with a deep pessimism about the state of this country — and he wants to make sure that his kids have some hope to hold onto. We also go over our week in parenting triumphs and fails. Then, if you’re sticking around for Slate Plus, we’ll share some strategies for explaining the war in Gaza to kids – and hopefully not frightening them in the process. On that topic, here are some resources that our hosts wanted to share: From the New York Times: What I Told My Daughter About The War From NPR: How to talk to children about the violence in Israel and Gaza From The National Child Traumatic Stress Network: Talking to Children about War Join us on Facebook and email us at momanddad@slate.com 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. You can also call our phone line: (646) 357-9318. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you’ll also be supporting the work we do here on Mom and Dad are Fighting. Sign up now at slate.com/momanddadplus to help support our work. Podcast produced by Maura Currie and Rosemary Belson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode may contain explicit language.
0:02.6	Welcome to mom and daughter fighting,
0:06.8	Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, November 16th, The Finding Hope Edition.
0:12.1	I'm Elizabeth New Camp.
0:14.0	I write the family travel blog Dutch Goose.
0:16.0	I'm the mom of Three Littles, Henry who's 11, Oliver who's 9, and Teddy who's 7.
0:20.0	We live in Tokyo, Japan.
0:22.0	I'm Camiloew, a writer, contributor to Slate's Parent Feeding Parents in Column,
0:28.0	and Mom Tnaima, who's 10, and we live in Los Angeles.
0:31.0	I'm Zach Rosen. I make another podcast that's called
0:34.8	the Best Advice Show and I'm Dad to Noah who's six and Ami who's three. We live in
0:39.3	Detroit. Well today on the show we've got a dad who's trying to find a little optimism in the face of the world's chaos.
0:46.0	It's easy to slip into pessimism, so how can we avoid passing that on to our kids?
0:51.0	We're also going to catch up on our weekend parenting and then if you're
0:54.0	in the Slate Plus Club we're going to wade through a complicated issue how to
0:58.0	talk to our kids about war. We're going to tell you what tips have stuck out to
1:02.2	us and been the most helpful.
1:04.0	And even if you're not in Slate Plus, we're going to be linking to resources on the show page.
1:08.3	But here's what you'll hear if you have Slate Plus.
1:11.3	Yeah, I mean, we had been, been yeah I guess avoiding is the right word
1:14.7	having the conversation with NOAA about what's happening in in Israel and Gaza because
1:21.4	it's so dark and I wasn't sure to what degree we could actually like
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