Thankful In Spite of Everything Edition
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🗓️ 26 November 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Dan, Jamilah, and Elizabeth gather around the virtual Thanksgiving table to share the major and minor things that got them through this wild year. They also answer a listener question from a mom nervous about changes to her kids’ education as they move across the country.
In Slate Plus: Dan, Jamilah, and Elizabeth duke it out over the best and worst Thanksgiving foods. Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on MADAF each week, and no ads. Sign up now to listen and support our work.
Recommendations:
Elizabeth recommends using Native-Land.ca to learn about Indigenous lands. If you’d like to learn about land you are on, you can also text your city and state *City, state” 1-907-312-5085 or to LandAcknowledgement on Facebook Messenger. Elizabeth also recommends following sitbymyfire on Instagram. She has a wonderful list of picture books for Native American Heritage Month.
Jamilah recommends peanut butter cups from Emerald Sky Edibles, if you are in a location where cannabis is legal.
Dan recommends watching Slings & Arrows.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.9 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, November 26th, the Thankful in Spite of Everything Edition. |
| 0:13.7 | 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, and Harper, who's 13. We live in Arlington, Virginia. |
| 0:22.8 | I'm Jimmy Lillamue, a writer-contributor to Slate's care and feeding parenting column, |
| 0:27.9 | although you should not look for my work over there this week unless maybe they ran one of my |
| 0:32.6 | old pieces because I took the week off for a little holiday self-care. And of course, I am mom to Naima, |
| 0:39.6 | who is seven, and we live in Los Angeles, California. I'm Elizabeth New Camp. I write the |
| 0:44.3 | homeschool and family travel blog Dutch Dutch goose. I'm the mom to three little, Henry who's eight, |
| 0:49.3 | Oliver, who's six, and Teddy, who is four. And I live in Navar, Florida. |
| 0:54.4 | Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. |
| 0:56.0 | Happy Thanksgiving. |
| 0:57.7 | Happy Thanksgiving. |
| 0:59.3 | So it is indeed Thanksgiving Week in the U.S. |
| 1:01.5 | Many of you may be listening to this on Thanksgiving. |
| 1:03.9 | We release on Thursdays. |
| 1:05.4 | Since this year, none of us are hosting 100 cousins in our house for our annual spitting |
| 1:09.8 | extravaganza. |
| 1:10.8 | We are going to go around our virtual table today and talk about what we are thankful for. |
| 1:15.8 | Plus, we've got a listener question about supporting your kids at school when you have to upend your life and move across the country, something a few of us may have a little bit of recent experience with. |
| 1:26.8 | As always, we've got triumphs, we've got fails, we've got recommendations. |
| 1:30.8 | Let's start with triumphs and fails. |
| 1:32.3 | Jamila, you want to start this week? |
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