Privacy, Please! Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Elizabeth, Dan, and Jamilah counsel a parent whose kid felt hurt and slighted when her Zoom playdate abruptly ended. Then they tackle a close quarters situation: a little kid is asking for privacy in the mornings. But the family has two other kids to dress and a limited amount of space in their apartment. What should they do now that her morning routine is making it hard for their entire family to get out the door?
In Slate Plus: Gabe Roth, Slate's editorial director for audio and former Mom and Dad are Fighting co-host, joins to vent about the Netflix movie, Yes Day. 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 Coca-Cola With Coffee’s Dark Blend flavor.
Dan recommends Amber and Clay by Laura Amy Schlitz.
Elizabeth recommends Welly bandages.
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| 0:00.0 | Just wanted to give you some fair warning that Dan's probably going to swear on this podcast, because he always does. |
| 0:08.1 | Welcome to Mom and Daughter Fighting Slate's Parenting Podcasts for Thursday, March 25th, the Privacy Please Edition. |
| 0:16.2 | I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog Dutch Dutch goose and the mom mom to three little, Henry who's eight, Oliver who's six, and Teddy who's four, and we live in Navar, Florida. Hello, I'm Dan Cois. I'm a writer at Slate and the author of the book How to Be a Family. I'm the dad of Lyra, who is 15, and Harvard who's 13, and we live in Harlington, Virginia. |
| 0:43.2 | I'm Jimmy Lillamue, a writer, contributor to Slate's Karen Feeding Parenting column and co-hosts of Slate's Wild and Wise Evening Chat Show and Mom to Naima, who is just about eight years old, |
| 0:51.6 | and we live in Los Angeles, California. |
| 0:57.5 | So on today's show, what to do if a Zoom playdate goes south? Then we'll come up with a strategy for a five-person family living in |
| 1:02.8 | close quarters and a kid who needs privacy in the bathroom. Then on Slate Plus, have your kids |
| 1:08.6 | watch the Netflix movie yesterday and started begging for a whole day where you, their parent, can't say no to anything? |
| 1:15.9 | While you're not alone, former Madoff co-host, Gabe Roth, will be joining us to rant only on Slate Plus. |
| 1:21.5 | So let's start with triumphs and fails. |
| 1:24.5 | Dan, what do you have for us? |
| 1:26.1 | I've got a simple, powerful fail this week, just a pure |
| 1:30.8 | unalloyed, inarguable fail. So we were all eating ice cream and we have this new ice cream |
| 1:38.9 | scoop that we got just a few months ago. And I don't like the ice cream scoop. The ice cream scoop is |
| 1:43.9 | just, it's too big. Its I don't like the ice cream scoop. The ice cream scoop is just, |
| 1:50.4 | it's too big. Its mouth is too wide. It barely fits in a pint container, which is the size of container that the best flavors of ice cream are served in. It just doesn't work that well. |
| 1:55.5 | You know, Harper's like struggling to get the ice cream out of the box. Then I have to help her. |
| 1:59.9 | And I go, you know, I just really don't like this new ice cream scoop I got because I was thinking, I feel like I probably bought this thing and I don't want to, you know, anyone else to feel like I'm criticizing their ice cream scoop or whatever. So I made sure to put it on me. This ice cream scoop I got, not very good, guys. Am I right? |
| 2:18.0 | And then Harper just instantly goes, okay, well, I got it for you for Christmas. |
| 2:24.1 | It's just a real basic, you had one job, kind of fail. |
| 2:29.0 | Don't talk shit about what your children got you for Christmas. |
| 2:33.4 | It's not that hard, but I, |
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