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Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

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Parenting, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode, Dan, Rebecca, and Jamilah answer listener questions from an introverted dad who wants to raise a social kid and from atheist parents struggling with attending events at their local evangelical university. As usual, we share our triumphs and fails and offer up some recommendations. For Slate Plus, we talk about how to deal with differeing parenting philosophies among co-parents, inspired by Michelle Herman’s Care and Feeding column. Sign up for Slate Plus here.

Recommendations:

Dan recommends the Audible versions of The Babysitter’s Club books, available August 13.

Rebecca recommends watching some glass blowing or, alternatively, watching the glass blowing reality show Blown Away on Netflix. (For more of a glass blowing fix, you can read Slate’s article “Who Invented the “Glory Hole”—Glass Blowers or Gays?”)

Jamilah recommends spending time away from your kids.

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Podcast produced by Jess Jupiter.

Hosts Dan Kois, Rebecca Lavoie, and Jamilah Lemieux

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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 Podcast for Thursday, August 1st, the Playground Beer Edition.
0:13.0	I'm Dan Cois. I'm a writer and editor at Slate. I'm the author of How to Be a Family, which is coming soon.
0:17.5	And I'm the dad of Lyra, who's 14, at Harper, who's 11.
0:21.7	I'm Rebecca Levoy. I'm a journalist and podcaster in New Hampshire. And I am mom to Henry,
0:26.5	who will be 18 this week. My son, Teddy, is 16 and a half. And my stepdaughter, Lily, who is 19.
0:33.3	I am Jimmy Lou Lemieux. I'm a writer, communication strategist, and mom to Naima, who is six going on 60.
0:42.6	And you are currently Brooklyn, but on your way to L.A.
0:45.8	Hello, everyone.
0:46.7	Hello.
0:47.7	Hello.
0:48.5	Today on the show, we've got a question from a divorced dad who is trying to get through his introversion to help his child hang out with friends,
0:57.5	and some atheist parents who are struggling with their local evangelical university,
1:03.2	plus triumphs and fails and recommendations and a great Slate Plus segment.
1:07.5	But first, let's start out with triumphs and fails.
1:10.1	Rebecca, what do you have for us today?
1:11.9	I've got a triumph. My wonderful son, Teddy, just returned from a week away at
1:17.6	Don't laugh, band camp, which he loves. I would never laugh. It was a formative experience for me.
1:26.2	It is. This is his fourth year going. It's a wonderful music program run by the University of New Hampshire. And it's a week long. And basically, the kids all live in dorms. And then they, when they get there, they audition for their ensembles. And he was planning on majoring in voice but like brought his bass with him and was
1:45.4	just hoping against hope to get into one of the jazz bands and he ended up getting into the best
1:50.3	jazz band and had to then major in bass and minor in voice which was very exciting for him even though
1:55.7	he loves both so we went to his concerts last weekend and saw him perform and it really is wonderful when your kid is into the arts and they get into an environment where they're with like all the other best kids in the state for singing and instrumental playing and stuff.
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