Quitting Kindergarten
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🗓️ 10 September 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Elizabeth, Jamilah, and Dan answer a question about a kindergartener getting fed up with attending school via screen. They also answer a question from a mom worried that her little one said he wanted to kill her.
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Recommendations:
Dan recommends the Asterix comic series.
Jamilah recommends watching P-Valley after your kids go to bed.
Elizabeth recommends Write and Draw Your Own Comics for car entertainment perfect for 8 year olds.
Additional Recommendations:
The Kids Are Asleep, the hilarious Slate Live show. Catch it via Slate’s Facebook or YouTube on Thursdays at 10:00 p.m. ET / 7:00 p.m. PT.
The Rabbit Listened by Cori Doerrfeld.
The Phineas and Ferb Movie Applies the Matur-inator by Dan Kois. Related, Emily Nussbaum’s twitter thread about Candace Against the Universe.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.7 | Welcome to Mom and Daughter Fighting, Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday, September 10th, the quitting kindergarten edition. |
| 0:12.5 | I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog Dutch Dutch goose. |
| 0:16.6 | I'm the mom to three littles, Henry 8, Oliver 6, and Teddy 3, and I'm living in Navar, Florida. I'm Jamila Lemieux. I'm a writer, communication strategist, a contributor to Slate's care and feeding parenting column, host of Slate's The Kids Are Asleep, and Mom to Naima, who is 6, and we live in Los Angeles, California. |
| 0:55.2 | Hey, everyone. 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, Harper, who's 13, and we live in Arlington, VA. Today on the show, we have a question about a kindergartner, getting fed up with screen school. We'll also be discussing a wild question about a little one who told his mother that he wants to kill her. As always, we have triumphs and fails and recommendations. |
| 1:00.8 | So, Jamila, will you start us off today? Do you have a triumph or a fail? |
| 1:04.7 | Well, off the heels of last week's grand double triumph, I had to show up with a fail. |
| 1:10.3 | I inadvertently fostered a cat this weekend. |
| 1:16.6 | So you've added a cat. No, no. I'm so interested in the inadvertent part. Please tell what happened. |
| 1:24.3 | So five in the morning on Sunday, I get up, go to the bathroom. |
| 1:28.6 | Naima's brother was visiting. |
| 1:30.2 | They're both sleep in her room. |
| 1:32.1 | So I get up, go to the bathroom, and I see that the cat is on the floor behind me. |
| 1:35.6 | I'm like, okay, cool, it's the cat. |
| 1:37.0 | And then I'm like, that is not our cat. |
| 1:39.3 | That is an entirely unfamiliar cat that is on the floor of my bathroom while I am pink at 5 in the morning. |
| 1:49.7 | The house is dark. There's nobody here to turn to. I'm all on my own with this. |
| 1:54.0 | Ghost cat. I did go look at the sleeping children and try to decide, like, maybe I could just |
| 1:59.1 | wake them up for some moral support and |
| 2:00.9 | decided against it. I mean, I know exactly how the cat could have got in. Like, I've got in a very |
| 2:05.7 | bad habit of leaving the patio door open at times for a little air and because I do let Candy |
| 2:11.0 | Girl run around a bit outside. Anyway, so there's this cat in my bathroom. So I'm freaked the |
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