The I Hate You Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Dan and Jamilah are joined by Isaac Butler to answer a question from a mom trying to make up for a verbal slip in a moment of frustration. And we have a question from a mom who wants to fend off family pressure to baptize her child. For Slate Plus: a mini Mom and Dad are Fighting reunion! Dan talks to Allison Benedikt about her adventure taking Sam to the Westminster Dog Show. Sign up for Slate Plus here.
Recommendations:
Dan recommends Every Kid Outdoors, a program that allows 4th graders to get into all federal lands for free.
Jamilah recommends Harlem's Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills by Renee Watson and Christian Robinson.
Isaac recommends digging into the Sondheim back catalogue, specifically Company, with your kids.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.9 | Welcome to Mob and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, February 13, the I Hate You Edition. |
| 0:12.6 | I'm Dan Coice. I'm a writer at Slate and the author of the book How to Be a Family. I'm also the dad to Lyra, who's 14, and Harper, who's 12, and we live at Arlington, Virginia. |
| 0:22.4 | Hi, I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, cultural critic, and contributor to Slate's Karen feeding parenting column. |
| 0:30.2 | I'm mom to Naima, who is six and seated next to me in the studio, and we live in Los Angeles, California. |
| 0:37.9 | Since Naima's in the studio with you, Jamila, I wonder if she has anything to say to the |
| 0:42.9 | person who's responsible for her mother buying boom blast sticks. |
| 0:47.8 | Naima, do you have anything to say to me? |
| 0:49.8 | I didn't like them. |
| 0:53.3 | Fair enough. |
| 0:56.8 | I'm very sorry for traumatizing you in that way, Naima. |
| 0:59.9 | It was for big kids only. |
| 1:01.7 | For big kids only. |
| 1:02.7 | That is great advice. |
| 1:04.5 | Naima, we're so glad you're here. |
| 1:07.3 | And, of course, we're so glad that our third host is here. |
| 1:08.1 | Please introduce yourself. Hi, I'm Isaac Butler. |
| 1:10.1 | I am a writer and podcaster and all sorts of |
| 1:12.9 | other things. And I live in Brooklyn, New York, where I am the father to Iris, age five and a half. |
| 1:18.3 | Welcome, Isaac. It's a delight to have you, as always, to launch the charm offensive that you and I share. |
| 1:24.0 | Today on the show, we have a question from a frustrated mother who muttered that she hated her kid when she thought she was alone. |
| 1:32.1 | Does one offhand I hate you undo 15 million I love yous? |
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