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, Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday, April 8th, the slumber party

predicament edition. I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog Dutch Dutch goose.

I'm the mom to three littles, 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 Navarre, Florida for like one more month.

I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, contributor to Slate's Karen Feeding Parenting column,

and co-host of Slate's 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 Slate's working podcast, and I am the

father to Iris, who is six. And a half. The half is important.

I'm very important. I've learned that. I've learned that this year. Especially at six.

That's at the point where they know. Yes. Yes. A year is such a higher percent of their lives that it makes sense that half a year would mean a lot.

I mean, that's, that's, you're like one 12th of her life that we're talking about. We're talking about the half birthday.

Whereas when you're ancient like myself, six months is meaningless. Nothing. Flies by. 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

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