Just to give you a heads up, one of us is bound to say something not suitable for little ears.

Welcome to mom and dad are fighting. Slates parenting podcasts for Thursday, February 24th,

the turning into a math monster edition. I'm Elizabeth Newcastle. I write the homeschool

and family travel blog Dutch Dutch Goose. I'm the mom to three littles, Henry who's nine,

Oliver who's seven, and Teddy who's five. And we live in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

I'm Zach Rosen. I host the best advice show podcast.

I'm from Detroit, where I live with my family. My daughter Noah is four, and my son Ami is one.

I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, contributor to Slates' care and feeding parenting column,

and mom tonight Ema, who's just about nine, and we live in Los Angeles, California.

Well, on today's show, we're tackling math anxiety. Our letter writer is trying to help her

child with math, but it's all mixed up with her own issues of perfectionism and causing problems

with her partner. Then parenting burnout. We're all facing it, but what can we do to make it more

manageable? And on Slate Plus, the winter Olympics are over, but it got us thinking all about how we

handle sports with our own kids. Before we get into all of that goodness, we received this email

from a male listener who participated in Catillian and had this to say. Mom and dad, I appreciated

your recent episode entitled The Catillian Conundrum. My sister and I experienced a similar

situation to the child of the collar in our teenage years. We were black children who grew up

in very white neighborhoods and attended very white schools. We had the opportunity to participate

in what was referred to as social, which was essentially the white Catillian. Many of our peers

participated under the justification that it would teach them the manners of adult society,

and perhaps open connections to later opportunities. From speaking with friends who attended,

it seems none of them particularly enjoyed it, and much of what they learned as pointed out by

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