The Boy-Girl Friend Divide Edition
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🗓️ 11 March 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Jamilah and Dan are joined by longtime friend of the pod, Jessica Winter. Jessica just released her next novel, The Fourth Child. They answer a question from a mom of a little boy whose current friend group is all girls. She’s worried that he’s going to be ditched and without a group of friends as they all age. Then they tackle a question from a mom who has had it with her kids’ shouting a rather annoying nonsense word.
In Slate Plus: Inspired by Jessica’s little deconstructor, they’ll be commiserating over the worst things their kids have destroyed. Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on MADAF each week, and no ads. Sign up now to listen and support our work.
Recommendations:
Jessica recommends picture books by Melissa Iwai.
Dan recommends The Fourth Child by Jessica Winter.
Jamilah recommends So Delicious’ Dairy Free Oatmilk Peanut Butter and Raspberry frozen dessert.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains adult language is intended for adults and should be consumed by adults. |
| 0:06.1 | If you let your children listen to this, it's on you. |
| 0:11.2 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting. |
| 0:13.2 | Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, March 11th, the Boy Girlfriend Divide Edition. |
| 0:19.1 | I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, and I'm the mother of Naima, |
| 0:23.2 | Naima's mother, mom of Naima, who is almost eight years old, and we live in Los Angeles, |
| 0:28.4 | California. I'm Dan Cois. I'm a writer for Slate. I'm the author of the book How to Be a Family, |
| 0:32.8 | and I'm the dad of Lyra, who's 15, and Harper, who's 13, and we live in Harlington, Virginia. Hi, I'm Jessica Winter. My daughter's name is Devin. She is six. My son, Terran, is four, and we live in Brooklyn. Welcome back, Jessica. I am so excited to be here. I cannot believe Lyra is 15. That hurts my heart. It really... |
| 0:54.5 | Yeah, it's shocking. So much time has... Completely inappropriate, in my opinion. |
| 0:58.7 | No, I'm so happy to be here. Thank you. I can't believe people still get to live in Brooklyn, and I don't. It hurts me to my heart. So, congratulations. And I'm tempted to ask you to go check in on my favorite bodega cat. |
| 1:11.5 | We are excited to have you. |
| 1:13.6 | We're going to be answering a question about a little boy whose friends are all girls. |
| 1:17.7 | His parents are worried that he's going to be left all alone when middle school arrives. |
| 1:22.1 | I can tell you, that's not necessarily how that always goes. |
| 1:25.3 | We're then going to commiserate with a mom who is fed up with |
| 1:28.9 | her kids and their annoying nonsense word. On Slate Plus, we're going to be talking to Jessica about |
| 1:34.7 | her son, the budding engineer, who can't stop disassembling everything in her apartment. |
| 1:40.0 | What have your kids destroyed? What haven't they destroyed? But first, let's start with triumphs and fails. |
| 1:46.8 | And we'll start with you, Jessica. |
| 1:48.2 | Do you have a triumph or a fail on your return to the show? |
| 1:52.2 | I have a triumph that's going to double as a recommendation. |
| 1:56.5 | And it dates back several weeks now, but I needed to share it. |
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