The Odd Girl Out Edition

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Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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On this week’s episode: Dan and Jamilah are joined by Elizabeth Newcamp to answer a question from a mom with sons who is bothered when people ask her if she wants a daughter. While she loves having boys, the questions are annoying because, deep down, she thinks having a mother-daughter bond would be nice. They also answer a question from a mom looking for an appropriate way to ask parents if they keep guns in their house before letting her kids go over to play. For Slate Plus, Dan, Jamilah and Elizabeth play Would You Rather—parenting edition! Sign up for Slate Plus here. Recommendations: Dan recommends two games good for gaggles of tweens and teens: Exploding Kittens and You’ve Got Crabs. Jamilah recommends facilitating time between your kids and your child-free friends. Elizabeth recommends starting a book of centuries, a living document where you and your kids can fill in important dates. It helps your kids understand where they fit within a larger timeline. You can also download a free version to fill out. Join us on Facebook and email us at momanddad@slate.com to tell us what you thought of today’s show and give us ideas for what we should talk about in future episodes. Got questions that you’d like us to answer? Call and leave us a message at 424-255-7833. Podcast produced by Rosemary Belson. Hosts Jamilah Lemieux is a writer, cultural critic, and communications strategist based in California. Dan Kois is an editor and writer at Slate. He’s the author of How to Be a Family and the co-author of The World Only Spins Forward. Elizabeth Newcamp is a traveling mother of three boys who chronicles her misadventures at Dutch, Dutch, Goose. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Spark your creativity with the Sims. Sometimes you might feel like you're not creative
0:06.7	and you have to go in search of your creative spark again. Maybe this is catching up with
0:11.3	creative friends, experimenting with a new look or trying out a new recipe.
0:15.7	And thanks to The Sims, inspiration is just one game and one spark away.
0:21.1	Ready to spark something? Download the Sims 4 and play for free.
0:27.0	The following podcast contains explicit language. Welcome to Mom and Dadder Fighting.
0:35.0	Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, January 23rd, The Odd Girl Out Edition.
0:41.1	I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, cultural critic, and mom to Naima, who's sixth and we live in Los Angeles, California.
0:48.0	I'm Dan Coise. I'm a writer at Slate and author of How to Be a Family, and I'm the dad of Lyra, who's 14,
0:54.8	and Harper who's 12, we live in Arlington, Virginia.
0:57.4	I'm Elizabeth New Camp.
0:58.5	I write The Family Travel and Homeschool Blog Dutch Goose.
1:02.3	I'm the mom of three boys Henry 7 Oliver 5 and
1:06.1	Teddy 3. My husband's in the Air Force so we're currently calling Navar
1:09.6	Florida home. We're glad to have you back Elizabeth. I speak on behalf of myself and Dan Qua. I'm so
1:15.9	excited to be here with you guys. Welcome back. Thanks! So have you seen any frozen
1:20.8	iguanas fall off of a tree just yet? I have not seen any iguanas fall off of a tree just yet?
1:23.0	I have not seen any iguanas fall from the tree, but I was surprised at the headline.
1:28.3	We're finishing up kind of our first year in Florida, so a surprising weather announcement for me.
1:33.5	It is fun when people in warm weather climates have to deal with like their one day every
1:38.1	three years of cold weather.
1:40.0	I have a very vivid memory of a time when I was on a work trip with Alia to Palm Springs and it was raining
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