The Graduation-ish Edition

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Parenting, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode: Dan, Jamilah, and Elizabeth answer a question from a listener who really wants to celebrate her son’s graduation. But her senior wants zero acknowledgement of the milestone. They also answer a question from a mother whose 9-year-old has a name that sounds vulgar when said aloud. For Slate Plus, beloved former Mom and Dad are Fighting co-host Allison Benedikt tells a wild story about a questionable neighborhood raccoon, a heartfelt shower song, and makeshift trap. Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on MADAF each week, and no ads. Sign up now to listen and support our work. Please take our quick survey about the show: https://forms.gle/HnicihbGDaegWYoU9 Recommendations: Dan recommends You Must Remember This, a podcast about forgotten Hollywood history by Karina Longworth. Elizabeth recommends a free app called Seek by iNaturalist. Jamilah recommends cooking with Coconut Liquid Aminos Garlic Sauce. 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. Podcast produced by Rosemary Belson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.2	Welcome to mom and dad are fighting.
0:07.2	Slate's Parenting podcast for Thursday, May 21st, the graduation ish edition.
0:12.3	I'm Dan Koes. I'm a writer at Slate and the all. the graduation-ish edition.
0:13.0	I'm Dan Coise, I'm a writer at Slate and the author of the book How to Be a Family.
0:16.8	I'm the dad of Lyra who's 15 and Harper who's 12 we are currently hold up in Arlington, Virginia.
0:22.4	I'm Jimmy Lille Lemieux. I'm a writer,
0:24.4	cultural critic, and communications consultant, as well as mom to Naima, who is seven,
0:30.0	and we live in Los Angeles, California. I'm Elizabeth New Camp.
0:34.0	I write the homeschool and family travel blog,
0:36.0	Dutch Goose.
0:37.0	I'm the mom to three boys, Henry 8, Oliver 6 and Teddy 3,
0:42.0	and I'm in Navarre Florida.
0:45.4	Forever.
0:46.5	Forever.
0:47.5	No, probably not, but for now.
0:50.0	Yeah.
0:51.2	This week we're answering a listener question from a mom who's graduating senior put the Kaibosh on any kind of at-home celebration.
0:58.4	If you've got a graduating senior, they might want to listen to our first segment with you.
1:03.0	We're also answering a question from a mom who wants to change her son's name,
1:07.0	especially since his name sounds like an extremely rude word, a level 8 rude word. So maybe definitely have your
1:16.0	graduating senior listen to that if they want to hear a very rude word. As
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