Teen in Need
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2019
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: The hosts answer listener questions about a teen in need of some support about their sensitive mom and what to do about a little that likes dressing up as problematic princesses. We also welcome Aminta Steinbach as this week’s special host. As usual, we share our triumphs and fails and offer up some recommendations. On Slate Plus, Aminta talks about life as a live-in aunt.
Recommendations:
Rebecca recommends a gif that exemplifies sibling relationships.
Dan recommends clearing out your backyard and letting nature take its course.
Aminta recommends the book Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness by Anastasia Higginbotham.
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Podcast produced by Jess Jupiter.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.9 | Hello and welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast, for Thursday, June 27th, the Teen in Need edition. |
| 0:14.3 | I'm Dan Coice. I'm a writer and editor at Slate, and I'm the dad of Lyra, who's 14, and Harper, who's 11. |
| 0:20.3 | I'm Rebecca LaVoy, a journalist and podcaster in New Hampshire, and I am mom to Henry, |
| 0:24.3 | who is 17, Teddy, who is 16 and a half, and my stepdaughter, Lily, who is 19. |
| 0:29.4 | And today we have a guest host joining us live from Woods Hole, Massachusetts. |
| 0:33.4 | Hello. |
| 0:34.1 | Hi, I'm a Minta Steinbach. |
| 0:35.7 | I'm an organizational consultant in Oakland, California, but on vacation right now in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. |
| 0:42.5 | I'm the mother to Severin, who is 27 years old. |
| 0:49.5 | And, well, I know, it's amazing. |
| 0:52.5 | And the live-in aunt to Amalia, who is 16, and Joaquin, who is 14. |
| 0:57.6 | Today on the show, we've got a question from a teenager who's having trouble talking about her anxiety with her mom, plus a question about Princess Privilege. |
| 1:05.9 | As always, we'll have triumphs and fails plus recommendations, and Ins, we'll talk about being a live-in aunt with Aminta. |
| 1:14.2 | But first, let's do some triumphs and fails. Rebecca, do you have a triumph or a fail for us today? |
| 1:19.4 | I've got to fail, but bear with me, because it's not the fail you think it's going to be when I first tell you what it is. |
| 1:27.5 | My fail is around the fact that I took Teddy this morning to take the driving portion of his driver's license exam, and he failed that portion of his driver's license exam. |
| 1:37.5 | And the – I'm sorry, Teddy. |
| 1:39.1 | Yes, he feels freaking awful about it for a variety of reasons. |
| 1:48.2 | One is that he failed on stupid stuff that he's super good at doing but just was very, very nervous. But the other reason he was |
| 1:53.8 | really upset, and this is kind of like where the systemic failure of this comes in, is that |
| 1:58.9 | it's taken him a really long time to get to the point where we've |
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