Radical Rabbit Hole
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🗓️ 13 August 2020
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Jamilah and Elizabeth are joined by Denene Millner. Denene is an award-winning journalist, New York Times best-selling author, founder and editor of the parenting website MyBrownBaby.com, runs the inprint Denene Millner Books, and hosts two shows: Speakeasy with Denene and A Seat at the Table.
We have two listener questions this week. One is from a mother who is concerned about her teenage son’s rather conservative media consumption. They’ll also answer a question about how to teach empathy to a little one with a streak of egotistical behavior.
In Slate Plus: Jamilah and Elizabeth will be talking to Denene about representation in children’s books. Sign up for Slate Plus.
Recommendations:
Denene recommends Me & Mama by Cozbi A. Cabrera. If Dominican Were a Color written by Sili Recio and illustrated by Brianna McCarthy. Purchase these books at your independent bookstore.
Elizabeth recommends Chrome Music Lab.
Jamilah recommends Girls Make Beats and the Girls Make Beats Instagram.
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.
Early Sunday Morning by Denene Millner and illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton.
The Way I Act and The Way I Feel by Janan Cain and Steve Metzger.
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.
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Podcast produced by Rosemary Belson.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.8 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, August 13th, the Radical Rabbit Hole Edition. |
| 0:13.3 | I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, cultural critic, contributors to Slate's Karen Feeding Parenting Column and host of the kids are asleep, Slate's relatively |
| 0:21.8 | new evening chat show, and I'm Mom to Naima, who is seven, and we live in Los Angeles, California. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm Elizabeth New Camp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch Goose. I'm mom to |
| 0:32.6 | three littles, Henry 8, Oliver 6, and Teddy 3. And I'm currently located in Navar, Florida. So filling in for Danes |
| 0:40.5 | this week, we have a very special guest host. Please welcome to the show, Danine Milner. |
| 0:46.3 | Hey. Hey. Hey, girl. Hey. Danine for the uninitiated, is an award-winning journalist in New York Times bestselling author, I think many times over, |
| 0:57.1 | founder and editor of the parenting website My Brownbaby.com, and the host of two shows, |
| 1:02.7 | Speak Easy with Danine and a seat at the table. |
| 1:05.2 | Thank you so much for being here, Denise. |
| 1:07.4 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:10.3 | I'm a big fan of the show. Oh, thank you. And I am a big fan of you |
| 1:14.9 | and your writing and your work and your voice. And I've been following you and reading you before |
| 1:18.9 | I was a parent myself. And your once little people that started you writing children's books |
| 1:24.5 | are all grown up now. How old are your children, Denise? |
| 1:35.0 | My once little people are good and grown. Lila is 18 and Mari is 21. My youngest daughter is about to make me an empty nester if it were not for COVID. She's going to be here for the first |
| 1:41.0 | semester. But yeah, all of my kids are officially old enough to be gone. |
| 1:45.7 | They're grown, grown. We were just chatting. She's like really, like, launched them, like, |
| 1:50.1 | in a way that every parent, I think, would be so proud of, like, they found themselves, |
| 1:55.5 | and they're off to places where they're really growing and learning and being amazing young |
| 2:00.1 | women. |
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