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Mom & Dad: Whoops...A Baby!

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4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode: Dan, Jamilah, and guest host Elizabeth Newcamp answer listener questions from a mom who is contemplating telling her son he was unplanned before his father tells him. And a guide to making friends with other parents. How can you make the leap from school yard acquaintances to actual friends? For Slate Plus, the hosts reminisce about amusement parks memories. Can parents actually have fun? Or is it all about the kids? Sign up for Slate Plus here. Recommendations: Elizabeth recommends the U.S National Park Service’s Junior Ranger Program. And in a stunning moment of unplanned host telepathy - Jamilah and Dan recommend the same thing: creating special handshakes with your kiddos. 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. Elizabeth Newcamp is a traveling mother of three boys who chronicles her misadventures at Dutch, Dutch, Goose! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Have you ever thought, ugh, this water is too wet?

0:04.0

Or this beach is too sandy.

0:06.0

My name's Christine.

0:08.0

And my name is Sandy.

0:09.0

And we're the host of Beach Too Sandy, Water Too Wet.

0:11.0

A podcast where we do dramatic readings of the most wild and off-the-wall reviews on the internet.

0:15.9

We find the funniest real reviews about everything from Vegas weddings, matchmaking services

0:21.4

and Trader Joe's, caves toddler beds and Spirit

0:24.5

Halloween. You won't believe the things that people think absolutely must be

0:28.1

said on the internet. How else would everyone know that some caves don't have

0:31.1

Wi-Fi? We hear about the good, the bad, and that one time

0:34.0

time spirit Halloween sent someone a dildo instead of a Halloween

0:37.0

costume and believe it or not we got to the bottom of it.

0:40.0

Join us every Wednesday wherever you listen to your podcast.

0:43.3

Beach, Sandy, Water Toet is brought to you by the Forever Dog Podcast Network.

0:47.2

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:50.3

Welcome to mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting

0:55.0

Parenting Podcast for Thursday, November 21st, the Whoops,

0:59.0

A Baby Edition.

1:01.0

I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, contributor to Slate's Karen Feeding Parenting Column,

1:06.2

and Mom to Naima, who is six and we reside in Los Angeles, California.

1:10.4

I'm Dam Coise. I'm a writer and editor at Slate and the author of

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