There’s No Such Thing as a Polite 3-Year-Old

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🗓️ 24 September 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode: Jamilah, Elizabeth and Rebecca answer a question about a mother who “feels like less of a parent” now that she shares 50/50 custody of her daughter, post separation. They also answer a question about how to teach a “threenager” to be polite.

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Elizabeth recommends actually using your fancy dishes.

Rebecca recommends making the switch to cloth napkins. Bonus recommendation for adults: watch Borgen.

Jamilah recommends Celestial Seasonings’ Lemon Lavender Lane tea.

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:05.7	Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting.
0:08.1	Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, September 24th, the There's No Such Thing as a Polite 3-year-old edition.
0:15.4	I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, contributor to Slate's Care and Feeding Parenting column, and a host of Slates. The kids are
0:22.0	Sleep, Late Night Chat Show, and Mom to Naima, who is seven, and we live in Los Angeles, California.
0:29.0	I'm Elizabeth New Camp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch Goose. I'm the mom to
0:34.0	three littles, Henry 8, Oliver 6, and Teddy 3, and I'm located in Navar, Florida. I'm Rebecca Levoy. I'm a journalist, and the podcast you're behind Crime Writers on. I live in New Hampshire. My kids are Henry, who is 19, Teddy who is 17, and my stepdaughter, Lily, who is 20. Rebecca, it is so good, as always, to have you back on the show this week.
0:56.1	I'm excited.
0:57.0	I'm really excited.
0:58.1	It's always fun to come back.
0:59.6	It's always fun to have you back.
1:00.8	And this is a perfect show for you to be here.
1:03.2	And I'm not outnumbered by the traditional family having folks.
1:08.0	We have a question from a mother who quote unquote feels like less of a parent now
1:12.6	that she shares 50-50 custody of her daughter due to a separation. And we also have a question
1:17.7	about getting a three major to be polite as if there is such a thing. Question answered.
1:24.7	Question answered. And as always, we have triumphs and fails and recommendations.
1:30.3	Let's start with you, Rebecca.
1:31.7	Do you have a triumph or a fail for your return to the show this week?
1:35.9	I've got a triumph.
1:37.1	And this is for me one of the huge benefits of my working at home situation.
1:46.1	I've been working at home like a lot of other people for about six months. And it looks like I'm going to have another six months at least of working
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