New Year, New Us

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

Slate Audio

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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On this week’s episode: Jamilah is joined by former MADAF host Gabriel Roth to talk about their New Year’s parenting resolutions. Plus, they answer a listener question from a mom wondering if her husband’s napping is selfish. For Slate Plus, Jamilah and Gabriel compare the parents they thought they would be with the parents they actually are. Sign up for Slate Plus here. Recommendations: Jamilah recommends the Creatable World Deluxe Character Set, gender non-conforming dolls from Mattel. Gabriel recommends building Lego sets with your kids, specifically the Hogwarts™ Whomping Willow™ Lego set. 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 Jamilah Lemieux is a writer, cultural critic, and communications strategist based in California. Gabriel Roth is Slate's editorial director for audio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Spark your creativity with the Sims. Sometimes you might feel like you're not creative
0:06.7	and you have to go in search of your creative spark again. Maybe this is catching up with
0:11.3	creative friends, experimenting with a new look or trying out a new recipe.
0:15.7	And thanks to The Sims, inspiration is just one game and one spark away.
0:21.1	Ready to spark something? Download the Sims 4 and play for free.
0:27.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:44.1	Welcome to my name. explicit language. New Us Edition. I'm Jamila Lemieu, a writer, contributor to Slate's Karen Feeding, Parenting Column, and Mom to Naima who is six and we live in
0:47.9	Los Angeles, California. And I'm Gabriel Roth. I'm the editorial director of Slate Podcasts and I'm the father of Eliza who is nine years old and Leo who is five.
0:59.0	Thanks so much for joining us, Gabe. I don't get to meet most of the Slate folks outside of Dan. So this is exciting for me.
1:06.0	Thanks for having me. It's cool to be back on the show. I'm really psyched to do this.
1:10.0	Of course. And Dan's not feeling feeling well so we're sending him good
1:14.4	wishes and hoping that he has a speedy recovery so that he can start off his new
1:19.2	year on the right foot. So today we're going to be talking about our New Year's parenting resolutions,
1:24.7	you know all the things that we come up with at the beginning of the year that we
1:27.4	abandoned by April.
1:29.2	And we're also going to be taking a question from a mom who's fed up with her husband's napping schedule.
1:35.0	Should a four-year-old go unsupervised while he gets a few minutes of shut-eye?
1:39.0	Ha ha, I'm sure you can imagine what I have to say about that, or perhaps you can't, because I have to say about that or perhaps you can't because I'm very
1:43.6	pro naps and as always we're going to do triumphs and fails and recommendations so
1:48.6	gave do you have a triumph or fail for us this week? That's a good question and to be honest I was
1:55.0	hoping I could get your help on how to categorize this one. So it's definitely
2:02.2	an intervention that I made that worked out fine, but I'm not sure if I did this right or not.
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