Suburban Appropriation
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode, Rebecca. Jamilah and Amy answer listener questions from a questioning the appropriateness of a local organization and a mom who wants her husband to be better about raising a body positive child. As usual, we share our triumphs and fails and offer up some recommendations. For Slate Plus, Amy gives some teacher-ly advice. Sign up for Slate Plus here.
Recommendations:
Rebecca recommends having two dogs in your home.
Jamilah recommends visiting Target to check out their capsule collection, 20 Years of Design for All.
Amy recommends the audiobook, Why We Sleep.
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Podcast produced by Jess Jupiter.
Hosts Rebecca Lavoie, Jamilah Lemieux and Amy Scott
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.5 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, September 26th, the Suburban Appropriation Edition. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm Rebecca LaVoy, a journalist and host of the podcast, Crime Writers On. |
| 0:17.6 | I live in New Hampshire, and my kids are Henry, Henry who's 18, Teddy who's 16 and a half, |
| 0:22.4 | and I have a stepdaughter Lily, who is 19. I'm Jamila Lemieux. I'm a writer and a contributor to Slate's |
| 0:29.2 | weekly parenting column, Karen Feeding, and mom to Naima, who is six, and we live in Englewood, |
| 0:36.1 | California. Hi, this is Amy Scott. |
| 0:38.5 | I am a middle school teacher and contributor to Slates Ask a Teacher column. |
| 0:44.2 | And I'm mom to Arlo and Patrick, who just turned five. |
| 0:48.4 | Today on the show, we've got a question from a parent wondering if she should say something |
| 0:52.8 | about the inappropriate appropriation going on in her community. |
| 0:56.7 | Spoiler alert. I'm guessing we're going to say yes. Not sure, though, we'll find out. Plus, a question about |
| 1:02.6 | addressing body image when raising kids in a culture that's perhaps a little more comfortable, |
| 1:08.2 | dissing fat people. And on Slate Plus, how to deal with teachers when |
| 1:12.9 | red flags around test scores, homework, or whatever, crop up this early in the school year. |
| 1:19.1 | If you want to hear that conversation, join us on Slate Plus at slate.com slash mom and dad |
| 1:24.7 | plus. Now on to the show. To kick things off, we've got triumphs and fails. |
| 1:29.8 | Jamila Lemieux, do you have a triumph or a fail this week? |
| 1:32.9 | I have a triumph this week. |
| 1:35.1 | For those who are keeping score, let me know how many I've gotten thus far because I think I'm batting kind of low. |
| 1:41.9 | So my daughter has school pitcher day on the second of October, which is like next week. |
| 1:48.3 | I don't know where September went. |
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