Temperamental Teen Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Elizabeth, Dan, and Carvell commiserate with a parent whose teen is taking every little correction to heart. Then Elizabeth sits down with Erika McLemore (@sitbymyfire on Instagram) to discuss how parents should incorporate lessons on Indigenous peoples, cultures, and land acknowledgements into play. She also shares a bunch of wonderful resources for parents and kids to continue educating themselves on language, history, and current issues central to the Indigenous experience.
In Slate Plus: Slate’s Holly Allen stops by to talk about her powerful new bathroom cleaning tool. A blacklight! Let's just say she can't unsee what she saw... Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on MADAF each week, and no ads. Sign up now to listen and support our work.
Recommendations:
Dan recommends East: 120 Vegetarian and Vegan recipes from Bangalore to Beijing by Meera Sodha.
Carvell recommends breaking out the Mario Kart games with the family. Not only is the Nintendo Switch great, but he also recommends throwing it back with a Nintendo Wii.
Elizabeth recommends taking time this week to reach out to one person and say something nice.
Erika’s Recommendations:
Jingle Dancer by Cynthia Leitich Smith
We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga by Traci Sorell
We Are Still Here! Native American Truths Everyone Should Know by Traci Sorell
Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace by Traci Sorell
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| 0:00.0 | Just to give you a heads up, one of us is bound to say something not suitable for little ears. |
| 0:04.4 | It is, after all, the one hour a day I spend away from my children. |
| 0:10.1 | Welcome to Mom and Daughter Fighting, Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday, February 25th, the Temperamental Teen Edition. |
| 0:17.8 | I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch, Dutch |
| 0:21.6 | Goose. I'm the mom to three littles, Henry who's eight, Oliver, who's six, and Teddy, who's four, and we live in Navar, Florida. I'm Dan Cois. I'm a writer at Slate. I'm the author of the book How to Be a Family. And I'm the dad of Lyra, who's 15, Harper, who's 13. We live in Arlington, Virginia. |
| 0:38.1 | And I'm Carvel Wallace, a writer and |
| 0:39.9 | podcaster in Oakland, California, and I am the father to Georgia, who is 15, and Ezra, who is 17, |
| 0:46.5 | and will be 18 next week. And the crowd goes wild. Carvel, we're so happy for you to pop-bye. |
| 0:52.0 | It's amazing. I'm happy to be here. So on today's show, |
| 0:55.7 | we are going to be talking about how to deal with a teenager who takes everything, even minor |
| 1:00.8 | corrections, as major criticism. Then I'm going to sit down for a one-on-one interview with Erica |
| 1:06.8 | McLemore, who is a Creek Seminole educator. We're going to talk about how families can learn about |
| 1:11.9 | indigenous people, culture, and honor the indigenous history of our land. We also have a dozy of a |
| 1:17.3 | Slate plus bonus segment for you. Slate's Holly Allen will be stopping by to talk about her |
| 1:22.4 | disgusting discovery when she went to clean her son's seemingly spotless bathroom. Let's just say that once you hear |
| 1:29.0 | this story, you will be running for your own cleaning supplies. So. True horror show. |
| 1:34.3 | I'm, I'm terrified. Let's start with triumphs and fails. So Carvel, you first. Do you have a |
| 1:40.7 | triumph or fail for us this week? Because I'm coming back after a long absence, I can't come with a fail, even though there's been, as I have always, all life is triumph and all life has fails. |
| 1:50.8 | But I'm going to talk about a triumph, which is that Ezra is at the end of his high school career. |
| 1:58.5 | Notice I didn't say he's about to graduate from high school soon because we're |
| 2:01.5 | not clear. And if that's precisely going to happen in this specific way that the Oakland Unified |
| 2:06.4 | School District had envisioned it, but he'll figure something out. We're happy with that. |
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