Parenting and Politics Edition
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🗓️ 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.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.9 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcasts for Thursday, November 5th, the Parenting and Politics Edition. |
| 0:12.6 | I'm Dan Cois. I'm a writer at Slate. I'm the author of the book How to Be a Family. I'm the dad of Lyra, who's 15, and Harper, who's 13, and I live in Arlington, Virginia. |
| 0:22.4 | I'm Jamila Lemieux. I am a writer, a contributor to Slate's care and feeding parenting column, |
| 0:28.2 | host of Slates, the kids are asleep, and mom to Naima, who is seven, and we live in Los Angeles, California. |
| 0:35.8 | And I'm Dahlia Lithwick. |
| 0:37.7 | I cover the courts and the law for Slates. |
| 0:41.0 | And I host the Amicus podcast for Slate. |
| 0:45.0 | And I am the mother to Kobe, who is 17 and so fair, who is 15. |
| 0:52.9 | And we've moved quite a lot of time since COVID, but right now we are in Toronto. |
| 0:59.6 | Toronto, beautiful Toronto. Lucky, lucky you. Warm, balmy Toronto. Dali, we're so happy to have you here |
| 1:06.5 | with us today. What a treat. I did not realize that your kids are so old now. That is remarkable. |
| 1:12.3 | I'm sure there's a way to take that. That doesn't imply that I'm also so old now. |
| 1:18.0 | Oh, no. You were a teenage mother, of course. |
| 1:20.3 | It feels very apt today, so I'm going to let it just roll off me. |
| 1:25.1 | We're all feeling about 10 years older than we usually are today. That's for sure. |
| 1:29.3 | So four years ago, we did an episode agonizing about how to talk about Trump with your kids. |
| 1:34.9 | That was rough. That was just a few weeks after we did an episode with parents of girls talking about how |
| 1:39.2 | excited they were about an upcoming Hillary victory. That was obviously a huge mistake. |
| 1:45.3 | But today we're somewhere in between those two emotions. We're recording this Wednesday afternoon, right here in |
| 1:49.6 | America, the day after election day, and things are evolving by the minute. The news is changing |
| 1:54.4 | every second. Very likely, when you finally listen to this podcast, maybe sometime Thursday, |
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