Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - The “Out the Door or Bust” Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Jamilah, Elizabeth, and Zak help a listener whose kid just will not get out the door in the mornings. Next, they dive into a debate about the purpose of homework and who gets to decide how much homework a child is required to do. On Slate Plus, they discuss an interesting package from Romper called Parenting at the End Of the World.
Recommendations:
Elizabeth recommends the card game Boom Goes the Dynamite.
Zak recommends the musician Caspar Babypants.
Jamilah recommends the show Wu-Tang: An American Saga.
Additional reading:
The History Of Homework: Why Was It Invented and Who Was Behind It?
Never Mind the Students; Homework Divides Parents
Ask a Teacher: Slacker or Genius?
Ask a Teacher: Homework: Who Needs It?
Ask a Teacher: Homework Is a Constant Battle in Our House
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 Rosemary Belson.
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| 1:05.2 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are fighting. Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday, November 4, |
| 1:10.1 | the Out the Door or Bus Edition. I'm Jameela Lemieux, mom to Naima, who's eight, |
| 1:16.4 | a writer and contributors to Slate's care and feeding parenting column. |
| 1:20.0 | And we live in Los Angeles, California. Naima's the headline, so we're just going to leave |
| 1:24.3 | with that from now on. I'm Elizabeth Newcamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, |
| 1:29.1 | Dutch Dutch Goose. I'm the mom to three littles. Henry, who's nine, Oliver, who's seven, |
| 1:33.1 | and Teddy, who's five. And we live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
| 1:38.0 | I'm Zach Rosen. I am dad to Noah, who's four and Ami, who's one. And I am host of the |
| 1:43.6 | best advice show of very short three times a week podcast featuring your best advice. And I'm in |
| 1:49.4 | Detroit. On today's show, we've got a question about a five-year-old who just can't get out the door |
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