The Toddler On the Run Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Jamilah, Dan, and Elizabeth weigh in with their best tactics to locate a young child in an emergency. They also answer a question from a mom who really wants to give her young daughter a sibling but is debating if the extra chaos is worth it.
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Recommendations:
Dan recommends Doodleville by Chad Sell.
Elizabeth recommends DIY tie-dye masks.
Jamilah recommends You Were Born For This: Astrology for Radical Self-Acceptance by Chani Nicholas.
Additional Recommendations and Resources:
Jamilah’s new Slate Live show: The Kids Are Asleep. Catch the first show on Thursday July 16 at 7:00 p.m. PST. Stream it on Slate’s Facebook page or YouTube channel.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.7 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, July 9th, the Toddler on the Run edition. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, cultural critic, and mom to Naima, who is seven and we reside in Los Angeles, California. |
| 0:20.1 | I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. |
| 0:21.3 | I write the homeschool and family travel blog Dutch Dutch goose. |
| 0:24.5 | I'm the mom to three littles, Henry, 8, Oliver 6, and Teddy 3. |
| 0:29.1 | And I'm located in Navar, Florida. |
| 0:31.5 | I'm Dan Coice. |
| 0:32.4 | I'm a writer at Slate and the author of the book How to Be a Family. |
| 0:35.4 | I'm the father of two bigs, enormouses, huges, |
| 0:41.1 | uh, Lyra, who's 15 and Harper, who is 12, and we live in Arlington, Virginia. |
| 0:46.5 | Today on the show, we have a letter from the parents of a little escapee who decided not to respond, |
| 0:52.6 | even when he heard his parents calling for him. |
| 0:56.5 | He was found after going missing just before the police were called. |
| 1:02.0 | What can his parents do to make sure that they can find him if or when he decides to go on |
| 1:07.3 | the run again? |
| 1:08.6 | We also have a question from a mother who would love to give her daughter a sibling, |
| 1:12.3 | but doesn't know if her household can take more sleep issues and a new baby. |
| 1:17.9 | And as always, of course, we have triumphs and fails and recommendations. |
| 1:22.3 | Let's start with you, Elizabeth. |
| 1:23.5 | Do you have a triumph or a fail for us this week? |
| 1:25.8 | I have a fail, which can just be generally summed up as like I was not very kind to my |
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