My Child is Obsessed With a Squash Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Elizabeth and Jamilah debate how to have conversations with kids about body types. How do you model a healthy body image with your child? They also give advice on what to do when your child has a deep emotional attachment to a fruit. This might be a good time to talk about the life cycle of produce.
In Slate Plus: Elizabeth and Jamilah talk about two new released studies showing how the pandemic is making mothers more frustrated with their partners and kids. They even talk about some of the challenges they’ve faced while trying to balance working from home and taking care of their children. Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on MADAF each week, and no ads. Sign up now to listen and support our work.
Recommendations:
Jamilah recommends getting your car wrapped at an auto body shop.
Elizabeth recommends Fun-Schooling Journals from Thinking Tree Books.
Bonus Links:
There were two new studies released showing how the pandemic is making mothers more frustrated with their kids and partners: “Let’s Not Pretend It’s Fun”: How COVID-19-Related School and Childcare Closures are Damaging Mothers’ Well-Being.
Podcast produced by Jasmine Ellis.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:08.8 | Welcome to Mom and Daughter Fighting Slate's Parenting Podcasts for Thursday, November 19th. |
| 0:14.3 | The My Child is Obsessed with a Squash Edition. |
| 0:18.2 | I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. |
| 0:19.4 | I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch, Goose. |
| 0:22.3 | I'm the mom to three littles, Henry 8, Oliver 6, and Teddy 4, and I'm located in Navar, Florida. |
| 0:29.2 | I'm Jameel Lemieux, a writer, contributor to Slate's Karen Feeding Parenting Column and host |
| 0:34.1 | to Slate The Kids Are A Sleep Late Night Chet chat show and mom to Naima, who is seven, |
| 0:39.4 | and we live in Los Angeles, California. |
| 0:42.6 | And Dan is out this week, taking care of one of his children. |
| 0:46.9 | So it's the girls-only mom's addition, and hopefully we won't run too wild. |
| 0:53.9 | But today on this show, we've got a question from a mom about her child's infatuation with body types. |
| 1:00.0 | We'll also be answering a question about a parent's concern for their child who has found comfort in a fruit. |
| 1:06.3 | As always, we have triumphs, fails, and recommendations. |
| 1:09.8 | So, Jamila, what do you have for us this week? |
| 1:12.8 | Well, I have, once again, something that has not yet been categorized, but it is a we shall soon see. |
| 1:20.9 | You can't tell because for some reason, despite the fact that I bought my computer this summer, |
| 1:25.0 | like literally computer, whenever the summer Mercury Retrograde |
| 1:28.4 | was, my old computer died. I had to buy a new one like the next day. And the screen looks like |
| 1:35.4 | I'm talking on a razor phone, so you can't quite see my hair. But last night, after a little |
| 1:41.4 | bit of marijuana and some reading and just kind of doing my late night, |
| 1:46.2 | I'm trying to get my life together, I'm sorting out the house, I'm trying to do productive |
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