Just to give you a heads up one of us is bound to say something not suitable for little ears

It is after all the one hour a day. I spend away from my children

Welcome to mom and dad are fighting plates parenting podcasts from Thursday, April 8th the slumber party predicament edition

I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog Dutch Dutch Goose and the mom to three little

Henry who by the time this comes out will be nine years old

Oliver who's six and Teddy who's four and we currently live in Navarra Florida for like one more month

I'm Jamila LeMute a writer

Contributor to Slates Karen Feeding Parenting column and co-host of Slates Wild and Wise

evening chat show and mom to Naima who is eight and we live in Los Angeles, California

I'm Isaac Butler. I am a writer and the co-host of Slates working podcast

And I am the father to Iris who is six and a half the half is important

Very I've learning that I've learned that this year. Especially is six. That's at the point where they know yes. Yes

A year is such a

A higher percent of their lives that it makes sense that half a year would would mean a lot

I mean that's that's you're like one-twelfth of her life that we're talking about if I'm at the half-birthday

Whereas when you're ancient like myself six months is meaningless nothing

Well Isaac we're so glad that you are joining us on today's show

We have a question from a mother who lost their first daughter to stillbirth

Her second daughter is now a newborn and she's wondering when to tell her second daughter about her lost older sister

Then we've got a sleepover conundrum our letter writer's daughter is 10 and wants a girl's only slumber party

But her boy cousins want an invite should they be put on the guest list on slate plus

We'll be talking about sparking creativity in kids, but let's start out with triumphs and fails

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