Spoiling Santa Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Dan, Jamilah, and Elizabeth answer a question about a kid who was told Santa wasn’t real. Now she is basing her continued belief on whether or not she gets a horse for Christmas. They also answer a question from a sister who is worried about her younger brother’s slacking in school.
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Recommendations:
Jamilah recommends Eczema Honey products.
Elizabeth recommends Mail Order Mystery.
Dan recommends “Christmas Wrapping” by the Waitresses and “Christmas on Riverside Drive” by August Darnell.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is for parents. Maybe not for kids. |
| 0:05.7 | Hello and welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting. Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, |
| 0:09.9 | December 3rd, the Spoiling Santa Edition. I'm Dan Coice. I'm a writer at Slate. I'm the author |
| 0:15.5 | of the book How to Be a Family. I'm the dad to Lyra, who's 15, and Harper, who's 13, |
| 0:20.5 | and we live in Arlington, Virginia. I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch goose. I'm the mom to three littles, Henry who's eight, Oliver, who's six, and Teddy, who's four. And I'm living in Navar, Florida. I'm Jimmy Little Amu, a writer, contributor to Slate's care and feeding parenting column, |
| 0:39.5 | host of Slates The Kids Are Asleep, and Mom to Naima, who is 7, and we live in Los Angeles, California. |
| 0:46.2 | On this week's episode, Christmas is coming. |
| 0:48.8 | Santa's packing up a sleigh. |
| 0:50.1 | Parents are agonizing, as always, about gifts. |
| 0:53.4 | We've got a question from the parents of a six-year-old |
| 0:55.4 | who has some doubts about Santa and is basing her continued belief on whether or not she gets a pony for |
| 1:01.1 | Christmas. We'll also be advising an older sister who's worried about her high school-aged |
| 1:05.4 | brothers slacking in remote school. On our Slate Plus bonus segment this week, we'll be discussing |
| 1:10.7 | mall Santas behind Plexiglass, Zoom Santas, and all the other ways that St. Nick is trying |
| 1:15.5 | to make it through 2020. And as always, we have triumphs, we have fails, and we have recommendations. |
| 1:20.9 | But first I want to throw it over to Jamila, who's got a listener shout out. Yeah, I just |
| 1:24.6 | briefly want to send some love to Miss Vicki, who is a listener to the pod. |
| 1:30.5 | Vicky is the cousin of Stefan Wynne, who was my intern for many years, longer than the internship |
| 1:39.3 | program technically should have lasted, but we just found a love for each other. And, you know, |
| 1:44.1 | he wanted to be in the Ebony office and we wanted to have him there. And this beautiful and |
| 1:49.8 | brilliant young man passed away unexpectedly last weekend. And Miss Vicki was kind enough to reach out |
| 1:55.9 | to me and make sure that I was aware of what happened. And when she mentioned, she confirmed |
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