Toddler Ponzi Schemes Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Dan, Jamilah, and Elizabeth argue whether or not a toddler is obligated to join a sticker ponzi scheme if the invitation came from his cousin. Then, Jamilah talks to Rose Aka-James, National Membership Director of Black Mamas Matter Alliance, about the work being done to address the systemic racial disparities when it comes to Black maternal health. Check out BMMA’s Black Maternal Health Week Virtual Conference.
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Recommendations:
Elizabeth recommends Plasticus Maritimus: An Invasive Species by Ana Pêgo.
Jamilah recommends Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking by Samin Nosrat.
Dan recommends Cookie Chronicles by Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:04.9 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcasts for Thursday, April 15th, the Toddler Ponzi Schemes Edition. |
| 0:12.5 | I'm Dan Cois. I'm a writer at Slate. I'm the author of the book How to Be a Family. |
| 0:16.2 | And I'm the dad to Lyra, who's 15, and Harper, who's 13. We live in Harlington, Virginia. |
| 0:38.3 | I'm Jamil Lemieux, a writer, contributors to Slate's Karen Feeding Parenting column, and co-hosts of Slate's Wild and Wise chat show, and mom to Naima, who is eight, and we live in Los Angeles, California. I'm Elizabeth New Camp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch, Dutch goose. I'm the mom to three littles, Henry, who's nine, Oliver, who's six, and Teddy, who's four, |
| 0:43.4 | and we live in Navar, Florida. On today's show, we've got a question from a mom whose son received one of those |
| 0:48.6 | sends stickers to six people chain letters. What should a parent do to keep your kid from being embroiled in some |
| 0:56.1 | kind of toddler, sticker Bernie Madoff situation? Then, the CDC says that black women over 30 |
| 1:03.7 | are more than four times as likely to suffer pregnancy-related mortality than white women. |
| 1:08.0 | On Tuesday, President Biden proclaimed that this week is Black Maternal Health Week. |
| 1:12.4 | So Jamila is talking with Rose Aka James from the Black Mama's Matter Alliance about the racial disparities that Black mothers face during pregnancy and childbirth. |
| 1:21.3 | An onslaid plus, well, Schoolhouse Rock is still alive and well on Disney Plus, but might be getting a little bit dated. |
| 1:27.9 | So we're going to pitch some topics that aren't Schoolhouse Rock songs yet, but really deserve to be. |
| 1:33.3 | But let's start this week with a dilemma. Elizabeth, you have a dilemma and you need us to weigh in. |
| 1:39.7 | Take it away. |
| 1:40.3 | I do. |
| 1:40.9 | Okay. |
| 1:41.2 | So as you know, we are moving to Colorado Springs. |
| 1:43.9 | And with that move comes a change of like our whole life. And I've always said that every time we move, I'm going to evaluate our school situation based on kind of each child and the place where we are and all of that. So I'm looking at homeschool academies for the two oldest, and Teddy is going to preschool. |
| 2:02.1 | Like, he needs to not be at home every day. So I've found a lovely preschool for him that he's been |
| 2:08.1 | accepted into. It is not close to the house. It is like 25 minutes from the home we're going to be |
| 2:12.8 | in. I have found two homeschool academies that would be perfect for Henry and Oliver. |
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