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The Longest Shortest Time

The Weird History of Judgy Parenting

The Longest Shortest Time

Hillary Frank | Realm

Kids & Family, Sexuality, Health & Fitness, Parenting

4.74.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Nicholas Day wanted to know why he felt like a failure when he gave his kid a pacifier. The answer took him down a rabbit hole into the bizarre, hilarious, and strangely relatable history of parenting babies. … 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 you guys, I have an assignment for you.

0:08.7

I want you to do this tonight or like tomorrow night soon, okay?

0:13.4

So we're producing a new Stinger logo for the end of the show.

0:17.0

You know that thing where the lady says, Stitcher, you know, this thing.

0:23.8

Stitcher.

0:24.8

Alright, so here's what we need you to do.

0:28.5

You want you to play this clip for your kid.

0:31.5

Here it is again.

0:34.9

Stitcher.

0:38.4

Then record a voice memo of them singing it back to you.

0:42.2

Tell them to have fun like they can sing the melody, the rhythm, they can shout stitcher,

0:47.0

they can whisper it, they can make silly noises, whatever they want.

0:51.0

Then email us the file at helloatlongashortastime.com with the subject, Stitcher.

0:57.1

We've gotten a couple of these already and they are ridiculously cute, but we need more.

1:02.9

Also, we put fun callouts like this all the time on social media.

1:08.1

So make sure that you're following us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram so that you never

1:12.7

miss the chance to be a part of our next project.

1:15.4

And thanks.

1:19.1

When Nicholas Day became a dad eight years ago, there's this one thing that totally freaked

1:24.0

about a thing he did not expect.

1:27.2

I had this feeling about pacifiers that I couldn't explain, which is that like I really hated

1:33.2

them.

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