No Candy for You Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Since Halloween festivities have been curbed by COVID-19, Elizabeth, Jamilah and Isaac Butler have some ideas on how to celebrate safely. They answer a question about a kid who dresses up for Halloween but wants nothing to do with it this year. Then they answer a question about how to handle all the candy, especially this year when Trick-or-Treating is a safety risk.
In Slate Plus: Elizabeth, Jamilah, and Isaac reminisce over their favorite costumes and debate which costumes they’d like to see in stores this year. 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 Open Mike Eagle’s new album: Anime, Trauma + Divorce.
Isaac recommends Heidi Schreck’s What the Constitution Means to Me.
Elizabeth recommends weighted blankets, which are especially helpful for anxiety.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.8 | Welcome to Mom and Daughter Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcasts for Thursday, October 29th, the No Candy for You edition. |
| 0:13.5 | I'm Elizabeth New Camp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch, Goose. |
| 0:17.9 | I'm the mom to three littles, Henry 8, Oliver 6, and Teddy Who's 4, |
| 0:22.4 | and I'm located in Navar, Florida. And I would love to believe that this is the final time I would |
| 0:27.8 | say this, but it's 2020. And I am once again under a tropical storm hurricane slash watch. |
| 0:34.2 | And on Thursday, I will know my fate. So while you're listening to this, hopefully the storm has passed over us. |
| 0:40.2 | Hopefully the storm will pass over once again, Elizabeth. |
| 0:44.8 | Hi, my name is Jamila Lemieux. |
| 0:46.9 | I am a writer, contributor to Slate's Karen Feeding Parenting Column, host of Slates |
| 0:52.2 | The Kids Are Sleep Evening Chat Show, and Mom to Naima, |
| 0:56.2 | who is seven, and we live in Los Angeles, California. |
| 0:59.7 | Hi there. My name is Isaac Butler. I am a writer and theater director and Slate contributor, |
| 1:05.3 | and I co-host Slate's Working Podcast. But I also happen to be the father to Iris, who is six years old. |
| 1:12.6 | Isaac, thanks so much for stepping in while Dan's out this week. |
| 1:16.0 | It's a great pleasure. I love doing this show, so it's nice to be back. |
| 1:19.0 | Well, we've got a special Halloween episode this week. Jamil and Isaac, are you guys into Halloween? |
| 1:24.9 | I have plans. I'm going to dress up as Megan the Stallion for my friend Zoom |
| 1:28.9 | party and do karaoke on Saturday night. But in terms of her costume, you know, they're doing like a |
| 1:34.0 | little costume party at school on Zoom. Naima does costumes. I make them pretty much every year. |
| 1:40.3 | We've done Beyonce when she first emerged with her twin babies, wrapped in beautiful pastel-colored fabric. |
| 1:47.8 | We recreated that. |
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