The Mortified Mom Edition

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

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Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode: Jamilah, Elizabeth, and Isaac Butler answer a letter from a concerned mother who worries that she’s not able to fill the void of her step-daughter's biological mother. Then, they share some advice for a listener whose son is having trouble reacting appropriately to gifts he doesn’t like. In Slate Plus: 14-year-old Zaila Avant-garde wins the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee. Recommendations: Elizabeth recommends the Brickit App: an app that helps you find your missing Lego pieces. Jamilah’s daughter Naima recommends cooking turkey legs for your kids! Isaac recommends reading A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself, by Peter Ho Davies. 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 Morgan Flannery. Hosts Elizabeth Newcamp is a co-host of Mom and Dad Are Fighting. She's a traveling mother of three boys who chronicles her misadventures at Dutch, Dutch, Goose. Jamilah Lemieux is a writer, cultural critic, and communications strategist based in Brooklyn, New York. Isaac Butler is a writer, theater director and host of Slate’s podcast Working. He’s the author of The Method and the co-author of The World Only Spins Forward. Social @JamilahLemieux on Twitter https://twitter.com/JamilahLemieux @dutchdutchgoose on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/dutchdutchgoose/ @parabasis on Twitter https://twitter.com/IsaacButler Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on MADAF each week, and no ads. Sign up now at slate.com/momanddadplus to listen and support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	Welcome to mom and dad are fighting.
0:32.0	Slates parenting podcast for Thursday, July 15th, the mortified mom edition.
0:37.0	I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, contributor to Slates' care and feeding parenting column
0:42.0	and mom to Naima who is eight and we live in Los Angeles, California.
0:46.0	Hi, my name is Isaac Butler.
0:48.0	I am among other things the co-host of Slates' working podcast and a writer and a father
0:55.0	to Iris age six.
0:57.0	And I live in Brooklyn, New York.
0:59.0	I'm Elizabeth Newkamp.
1:00.0	I write the home school and family travel blog Dutch Dutch Goose.
1:03.0	I'm the mom to three littles, Henry, who's nine, Oliver, who's seven and Teddy, who's four.
1:09.0	And we live in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
1:12.0	Hi, I'm Naima Lemieux, Diles.
1:15.0	And I am eight and I'm daughter to Jamila Lemieux.
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