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The Longest Shortest Time

The Political Power of Black Motherhood

The Longest Shortest Time

Hillary Frank | QCODE

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Parenting, Kids & Family

4.84.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Author Dani McClain explains what makes mothering an inherently political act, especially for black women. To join the conversation, go to longestshortesttime.com! Sign up for our newsletter. Follow us on Instagram. This episode is brought to you by Mini Babybel, Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls Podcast, ThirdLove, Bona Premium Spray Mop, Sweeping up the Heart by Kevin Henkes and Milk. Also, Hillary Frank's Weird Parenting Wins book is out! Many of you are in it. Get a *signed* copy here.

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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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