The All Kids, All the Time Edition

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

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Parenting, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

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🗓️ 5 March 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode: Dan and Jamilah are joined by Emily Farranto to answer a question from a listener who works with kids and is thinking about having her own. Is constant contact with kids overwhelming? We also have a question from a mom whose son was hospitalized at 4 months after getting sick. But now her husband’s germaphobia is making daily life difficult. For Slate Plus: what forgotten historical figures would make the best costumes? Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on MADAF each week, and no ads. Sign up now to listen and support our work.

Recommendations:

Jamilah recommends preordering the picture book Who Will You Be? by Andrea Pippins.

Dan recommends Love Letter, a fun, fast card game great for two to four people.

Emily recommends Cowboy Magic, a concentrated hair detangler great for horses...and HUMANS!

Join us on Facebook and email us at momanddad@slate.com to ask us new questions, tell us what you thought of today’s show, and give us ideas for what we should talk about in future episodes.

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0:00.0	Hello, Slate listeners.
0:01.6	Do us a favor and help us make a better Slate by answering our survey.
0:06.0	It'll only take a few minutes.
0:07.3	You can find it at slate.com slash survey.
0:10.4	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:16.6	Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting.
0:18.5	Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday, March 5th, the All Kids All the Time Edition.
0:24.7	I'm Jimmy Lilamu, a writer, cultural critic, contributor to Slate's care and feeding parenting column, and Mom to Naima, who is six for just a few more weeks.
0:34.6	And we are based in Los Angeles, California.
0:36.9	Hey, I'm Dan Cois. I'm a writer at Slate and the author of the book How to Be a Family. I'm the dad of Lyra, who's 14, and Harper, who's 12 and 712s, and we live in Arlington, Virginia. I'm Emily Ferranto. I'm a writer, artist, and educator. I'm a mother to Oscar, who is 11, Ivan, who is nine, and we live in New Orleans, Louisiana.
0:56.1	Thank you for joining us, Emily. So today on the show we have a question from a listener who
0:59.8	works with kids, but doesn't have any of her own yet, and she's concerned that working with kids
1:04.8	and then coming home to more kids may be too much to handle. We also have a question from a mom
1:09.5	who's become a bit of a germaphobe after
1:11.5	her four-month-old had to be hospitalized. What's the line between ensuring your child's safety
1:17.0	and being overprotective? Plus, triumphs and fails and recommendations, as always. Let's start
1:23.4	with you, Dan. Do you have a triumph or a fail for us this week? I have a fail this week, a big old classic fail.
1:30.4	Yes. Absolutely no excuse for this fail. I am ashamed. So Harper's birthday is in August. She turned to 12 this past August. August was a busy time. We had vacations. There's a lot of work stuff going on. A lot of
1:46.4	her friends weren't around. And so we just didn't get it together to do a birthday party. And she
1:52.4	wanted a birthday party, but also when we started telling her, well, on this date, you know,
1:56.9	these seven kids couldn't make it because they're all at camp or all on vacation.
2:02.4	She was like, all right, I get it.
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