The Cross Country Conundrum Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Dan, Jamilah, and Elizabeth discuss parenting anxiety. Is it OK for a letter writer not to be overprotective? Or does parenting anxiety keep children safe? They also answer a letter from a woman whose stepdaughter is struggling on the other side of the country. How can you help when you’re so far apart? For Slate Plus: Dan, Jamilah, and Elizabeth turn their host mics over to THEIR KIDS! The mini-hosts tell us what they like and don’t like about staying home with their parents.
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Recommendations:
Jamilah recommends requests that you stay in the house and pay attention to the news. Please, please, stay in the house.
Elizabeth recommends A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: The Poetry of Mister Rogers by Fred Rogers and Luke Flowers. Perfect for poetry tea time in your house.
Dan recommends reading to your kids, even if they may seem a smidge too old. He’s reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
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Podcast produced by Rosemary Belson.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.8 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, March 26th, the Cross Country Conundrum Edition. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm Dan Coice. I'm a writer at Slate and the author of the book How to Be a Family. |
| 0:17.5 | I'm the dad of Lyra, who's 14, and Harper, who's 12, and I'm coming to you from my basement in Arlington, Virginia. Hi, I'm Jameel Lemieux. I'm a contributor to Slate's weekly care and feeding parenting column and the co-hosts of this podcast. That's all the jobs that I have left. Help me, please. I'm poor. I am the mom to Naima, who is six, and we live in Los Angeles, California. |
| 0:39.2 | I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch goose. |
| 0:43.8 | I'm mom to three boys, Henry 7, Oliver 5, and Teddy 3. My husband's in the Air Force, so we're currently calling Navarre Florida home. |
| 0:52.1 | And you are coming to us live from your Lego room. |
| 0:55.4 | My Lego room slash craft room. |
| 0:58.2 | Jamila, you're in your bedroom. |
| 1:00.5 | I'm in my bedroom. |
| 1:01.5 | So yeah, we're all coming to you from home in this very first all-quarantine episode of |
| 1:08.2 | mom and dad are fighting. |
| 1:09.1 | This is going to be the normal for the next few weeks, |
| 1:12.1 | months, years, who knows? But this is the way it's going to be. Slate Plus members are going to hear |
| 1:16.5 | a little bit from the kids who are floating all around these houses stomping around as we try |
| 1:21.5 | and record these podcasts. We'll tell you more about that later. But first, today on the show, |
| 1:26.1 | we've got two listener questions. Remember those? |
| 1:28.9 | We got a question from a mom who is confronted by a friend about her laissez-faire parenting style, |
| 1:34.1 | and now she's second-guessing herself. Is there a correct level of parenting anxiety? |
| 1:39.0 | We've also got a question from a stepmom who's moved cross-country for a job. Her stepdaughter's been struggling. |
| 1:45.6 | What can a stepmom do to help when she's half a country away? Plus, as always, triumphs and |
| 1:51.4 | fails and recommendations. Let's start with Triumph and Fails, Elizabeth. From Florida, do you have a |
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