The Odd Girl Out Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
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.
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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.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.8 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Friday. |
| 0:07.7 | Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday, January 23rd, the Odd Girl Out edition. |
| 0:12.9 | I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, cultural critic, and mom to Naima, who's 6th, and we live in Los Angeles, California. |
| 0:20.2 | I'm Dan Coise. I'm a writer at Slate, and the author of How to Be a Family. And I'm the dad of Lyra, who's 14, and Harper, who's 12. We live in Arlington, Virginia. I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the family travel and homeschool blog, Dutch Dutch, Dutch, Goose. I'm the mom of three boys, Henry 7, Oliver 5, and Teddy 3. My husband's in the Air Force, |
| 0:40.3 | so we're currently calling Navar, Florida home. We're glad to have you back, Elizabeth. I speak on |
| 0:45.6 | behalf of myself and Dan Cua. I'm so excited to be here with you guys. Welcome back. Thanks. So have you |
| 0:51.8 | seen any frozen iguanas fall off of a tree just yet? |
| 0:54.9 | I have not seen any iguanas fall from the tree, but I was surprised at the headline. |
| 1:00.2 | We're finishing up kind of our first year in Florida. |
| 1:02.5 | So a surprising weather announcement for me. |
| 1:05.4 | It is fun when people in warm weather climates have to deal with their one day every three years of cold weather. |
| 1:12.0 | I have a very vivid memory of a time when I was on a work trip with Alia to Palm Springs. |
| 1:16.6 | And it was raining, which is something that Palm Springs is not used to. And so on the local news, |
| 1:22.5 | we were watching it in the hotel. The lead story on local news was a shot of the rain, and then the crawl along the bottom |
| 1:30.0 | said, warning, rain causes puddles. Well, I'm definitely colder. Just having lived here for a year, |
| 1:38.2 | I feel colder, even though in the Netherlands, this would have been like summer. Like I would |
| 1:42.8 | have switched to my lighter jacket. |
| 1:44.7 | But here, Jamila, like you, I'm in full out coat, all of my things. Because, you know, I got to use them. Yes, and you have to use them. That's very frustrating. I had someone ask me she could have my fur coat because she didn't think I needed it anymore. And it was actually a fair request. I'm probably not going to honor it, but it's totally fair. |
| 2:02.7 | It makes a lot of sense. |
| 2:03.5 | No, you're using it. |
| 2:04.3 | This falls under the... think I needed it anymore. And it was actually a fair request. I'm probably not going to honor |
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