The Boy-Girl Friend Divide Edition

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Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 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. 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 about what we should talk about in future episodes. Podcast produced by Rosemary Belson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:26.0	The following podcast contains adult language is intended for adults and should be consumed by adults.
0:32.0	If you let your children listen to this, it's on you.
0:35.0	Welcome to Mom and Dad are fighting.
0:39.0	Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday, March 11th, the Boy Girl Friend Divide edition.
0:45.0	I'm Jameela Mew, a writer and I'm the mother of Naima.
0:49.0	Naima's mother, mom of Naima, who is almost eight years old and we live in Los Angeles, California.
0:55.0	I'm Dan Coise, I'm a writer for Slate.
0:57.0	I'm the author of the book, How to Be a Family.
0:59.0	And I'm the dad of Lyra, who's 15, and Harper, who's 13, and we live in Harlington, Virginia.
1:05.0	Hi, I'm Jessica Winter.
1:07.0	My daughter's name is Devon. She is six.
1:10.0	My son, Taran, is four, and we live in Brooklyn.
1:14.0	Welcome back, Jessica!
1:16.0	I am so excited to be here.
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