Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Tuesday, September 8th,

the What's for Lunch Edition.

I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, contributors to Slates Care and Feeding Column, and mom to Naima,

who is seven 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 Eight, Oliver Six,

and Teddy Three, and I'm located in Navarre, Florida.

On today's show, we'll be talking about healthy and easy lunches for your kids

no matter whether they'll be learning in person or at home. We'll be joined by

registered dietician Maya Feller for that conversation but first as always we've got triumphs and

fails Elizabeth do you have a triumph or a fail for us this week so I have a throwback

triumph from my parents.

My dad used to draw like these fantastic drawings

on our like paper lunch bags.

And then when we went to lunch boxes like on pieces of paper and

tape them in and I just remember feeling just like this amazing love coming from getting to pull these lunches out. He draws these like thoroughly

bizarre drawings that have huge noses. It's like just a thing he does and I could

recognize a drawing anywhere like going through old papers I'll see his

like doodles and I'll be like oh this is dads. And I even like messaged my sister to say like what do you remember

about lunches and she was like dad's drawings and I was like yeah he

would just draw like if we were went to zoo camp or there was something going on he would do like a

...