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The Longest Shortest Time

The Political Power of Black Motherhood

The Longest Shortest Time

Hillary Frank | Realm

Kids & Family, Sexuality, Health & Fitness, Parenting

4.74.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Author Dani McClain explains what makes mothering an inherently political act, especially for black women. … Join LST+ for community and access to You Know What, another show in the Longest Shortest universe! Follow us on Instagram Website: longestshortesttime.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Hillary Frank, creator and executive producer of this show.

0:13.8

So you guys have probably heard me talk about my book, Weird Parenting Winds.

0:17.9

It's a book full of unusual parenting strategies from listeners of this show.

0:23.4

Maybe you're one of them.

0:24.6

Well, I just wrapped up my book tour for Weird Parenting Winds and it was amazing to meet

0:29.6

so many of you.

0:30.6

I even got to meet some people whose parenting strategies are in the book.

0:35.2

Now, if I didn't come to a city near you, you can still get a signed book.

0:40.2

We have them right now in the longest shortest time shop.

0:44.0

Just go to podswag.com slash long short.

0:48.0

That's podswag.com slash long short.

0:51.8

Now onto the show with our host, Andrea Selenzy.

0:59.6

When Danie McClean was seven or eight years old, in the mid 1980s, she and her mom started

1:09.7

a new early morning ritual.

1:11.8

They weren't really a singing or dancing family.

1:16.3

But still, their days always started with the Whitney Houston song Greatest Love of All.

1:22.2

She would put it on before we left home in the morning to go to school and work.

1:28.8

I believe that children are through children.

1:33.1

Teach them well and let them lead them.

1:35.9

So she still is in the house that I grew up in.

1:37.8

It's the house that she grew up in as well and the house that her dad grew up in.

1:41.0

The living room is the biggest room in the house and that's where the stereo was set

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