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Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

The Quiet as a Mouse Edition

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

Slate Audio

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode: Jamilah and Elizabeth are joined by Isaac Butler, co-host of Slate's Working podcast. They advise a family who just moved into a new building. Not even 24 hours after meeting their downstairs neighbors, they received a potentially passive aggressive note about their kids’ noise level. How can they maintain peace in the building while letting their kids play? Then—what should you do when your kid wants to quit a sport midseason?  In Slate Plus: Will the slower pace of family life stick around after the pandemic? Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on MADAF each week, and no ads. Sign up now at slate.com/momanddadplus to listen and support our work. Recommendations: Elizabeth recommends signing up for summer reading at your local library.  Isaac recommends BOB books. Jamilah recommends catching up on reading and may she humbly suggest some pieces to get you started: Can I Bring My Very New Boyfriend to a 4-Year-Old’s Birthday Party?, My Daughter Sees Herself in Her Black Role Models and it Makes All the Difference, and High Mom: Why I’m (Mostly) Honest with My Daughter About My Weed Smoking.  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.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:05.0

Welcome to Mom & Dadr Fighting.

0:07.0

Slates Parenting Podcast for Thursday, June 3rd,

0:10.0

The Quiet as a Mouse Edition.

0:12.0

I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer,

0:14.0

contributor to Slates' Karen Feeding Parenting Column

0:17.0

and Mom Tunaima, who is 8 and we live in LA.

0:20.0

I'm Elizabeth Newkamp, I write the home school

0:23.0

and family travel blog Dutch Dutch Goose.

0:25.0

I'm the mom to 3 littles, Henry, who's 9,

0:28.0

Oliver, who's 7, and Teddy, who's 4,

0:31.0

and we live in Colorado Springs.

0:33.0

And I am Isaac Butler, I am a writer

0:37.0

and the co-host of Slates Working Podcast,

0:40.0

the father of Iris, age 6,

0:42.0

and we all live in Brooklyn, New York.

0:44.0

Thank you for joining us again, Isaac.

0:46.0

So, it's great to have you on the show.

0:48.0

Always a pleasure to be here.

0:49.0

Today, we're going to be counseling a family

0:51.0

who's got new downstairs neighbors,

0:53.0

and not even 24 hours after moving in.

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