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Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

Parenting and Politics Edition

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

Slate Audio

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode: With votes still being tallied, Dan and Jamilah are joined by Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick to debrief about the election and figure out how to talk about what’s going on with kids. They’ll answer a question from a parent who asks: How can you tell your kids it’s going to be OK if you’re just not sure that it will? They’ll also answer a question from a mom who is grappling with how much screentime is too much for her kids who are glued to The Simpsons.  In Slate Plus: Dealing with a politically divided country is one thing. But what should you do when you and your children are on the opposite ends of the political spectrum? Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on MADAF each week, and no ads. Sign up now to listen and support our work. Recommendations: Dahlia recommends helping your kids have relationships with adults who aren’t you, which is especially important during the pandemic.  Jamilah recommends purchasing pet insurance.  Dan recommends the game Tokaido.  Join us on Facebook and email us at momanddad@slate.com to ask us new questions, tell us what you thought of today’s show, and give us ideas about what we should talk about in future episodes.  Tune in to The Kids Are Asleep, the hilarious Slate Live show hosted by Jamilah Catch it via Slate’s Facebook or YouTube on Thursdays at 10:00 p.m. ET / 7:00 p.m. PT.    Podcast produced by Rosemary Belson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:06.1

Welcome to Momma Data Fighting.

0:07.4

Slates Parenting Podcast for Thursday, November 5th,

0:10.4

the Parenting and Politics Edition.

0:12.5

I'm Dan Coise, I'm a writer at Slate.

0:14.8

I'm the author of the book How to Be a Family.

0:16.5

I'm the dad of Lyra, who's 15,

0:18.5

and Harper, who's 13, and I live in Arlington, Virginia.

0:22.4

I'm Jamila Lemieux, I'm a writer,

0:24.6

a contributor to Slates' care and feeding parenting column.

0:28.1

Post of Slates, the kids are a Slate,

0:30.8

and Mom Tunaima, who is seven,

0:33.2

and we live in Los Angeles, California.

0:35.8

And I am Dahlia Lithwick.

0:37.8

I cover the courts and the law for Slates,

0:41.0

and I host the Amicus Podcast for Slate.

0:45.1

And I am the mother to Kobe, who is 17, and so far,

0:50.4

who is 15, and we've moved quite a lot of time since COVID,

0:56.6

but right now we are in Toronto.

0:59.5

Toronto, beautiful Toronto.

1:01.3

Lucky, lucky, you.

1:03.3

Warm-bommi Toronto.

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