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Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

The “Poopin’ In the Closet” Edition

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

Slate Audio

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode: Aymann, Jamilah, and Elizabeth tackle a desperate dispatch from a parent who just wants their kid to go to bed. Instead he is pooping in the closet. Then they take on the case of the threenage temper tantrums. How can you calm a kid who is being completely irrational? In Slate Plus: They’re talkin’ tech. Specifically, the gadgets that have transformed their parenting. If you love recommendations, you’ll definitely want to stick around for that discussion.  Recommendations: Elizabeth recommends Sharice’s Big Voice by Sharice Davids and Nancy K. Mays. Plus, check out Erika McLemore’s Instagram for more great book recommendations.  Jamilah recommends Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence by Anita Hill. Aymann recommends Elif by G. Willow Wilson and buying a new case for your old phone, especially if you’re itching to get your hands on a new phone.  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. Don't miss the member-exclusive segment on MADAF every week. Sign up for Slate Plus now at slate.com/momanddadplus and you'll also get to skip the ads, read everything on Slate.com, and support this show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.3

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0:09.2

Plus, you get a £50 travel voucher and are shot at winning an awesome trip to New York

0:13.8

and a Motorola Razor 40 Ultra. Check out the Lenovo Yoga series with laptops made for creatives

0:19.5

at Lenovo.com slash yoga. Limited time-only terms and conditions apply.

0:23.9

Engineered to do it all, that's a laptop evolved with Intel EVO platform.

0:30.0

Just to give you a heads up, one of us is bound to say something not suitable for little ears.

0:34.4

It is after all, the one hour a day I spend away from my children.

0:40.3

Hello, hello, welcome to Mom and Dad, our fighting Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday,

0:45.5

October 14th, the pooping of the corner edition. Yeah, that's what we're listening to today.

0:50.4

My name is Aiman Esmail, I'm a staff writer at Slate magazine. My four-month-old son is doing plenty

0:57.4

of pooping, so I'm going to try and help this letter writer. Yeah, that's my story.

1:02.0

I'm Jamila Lemieux, writer and contributor to Slate's care and feeding parenting column.

1:08.0

My daughter, Naima, is eight and a half, has never pooped in a corner and hopefully never will.

1:13.6

And we live in Los Angeles, California.

1:16.7

I'm Elizabeth Newcamp, I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch Goose,

1:20.5

and I'm the mom to three littles, Henry, who's nine, Oliver, who's seven, and Teddy, who's five,

1:25.8

and we live in Colorado Spring, Colorado. And with our powers combined, we create mom and

1:32.4

dad are fighting. On today's show, we've got a hilarious question about a kid who is just doing

1:37.2

his business in the closet when he should have been in bed two hours ago. Well, funny for everyone,

1:42.2

except for his tired family, then we'll advise a listener who is just trying to weather the three-nage

1:47.8

tempered chantrums. On Slate Plus, we'll be revealing the gadgets that have made our parenting

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