What's Up With All Those Nannies?

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🗓️ 8 August 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode, Rebecca, Jamilah, and Tom answer listener questions from a mom that doesn’t seem to understand the need for nannies and a mom that wants to have more inclusive birthday parties. As usual, we share our triumphs and fails and offer up some recommendations. For Slate Plus, we talk with our guest host, Tom Scocca, about sharing the news with your kids. We use Tom’s most recent Slate article, Where Taking the Concerns of Racists Seriously Has Gotten Us, to kick off the conversation. Sign up for Slate Plus here. Recommendations: Tom recommends the science fiction trilogy, Tripods Trilogy, by John Christopher. Rebecca recommends the sub-Reddit, r/teenagers. Jamilah recommends reading works by the late Toni Morrison and, unrelated, pushing the adult boundaries by getting a tattoo. Join us on Facebook and email us at momanddad@slate.com to tell us what you thought of today’s show and give us ideas for what we should talk about in future episodes. Got questions that you’d like us to answer? Call and leave us a message at 424-255-7833. Podcast produced by Jess Jupiter. Hosts Tom Scocca, Rebecca Lavoie, and Jamilah Lemieux Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:05.0	Welcome to mom and dad are fighting,
0:10.0	Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, August 8th,
0:12.0	The What's Up with All Those Nannies Edition.
0:14.4	I'm Rebecca Lervoy, a journalist and host of the podcast Crime Writers On. I live in
0:19.2	New Hampshire and my kids are Henry who just turned 18, Teddy who is 16, and my stepdaughter
0:24.0	Lily who's 19. I'm Jimmy Lille Lemieu. I am a writer and cultural critic. I live in
0:30.5	Brooklyn for the next few weeks before finally relocating to Los Angeles where I will reunite
0:37.0	with my daughter, Naima, who is six, going on 65.
0:41.1	I'm Tom Skocca. I'm the politics editor of Slate. My kids are Mac, age 12, and
0:46.6	Dominic age 7, and we live on the upper west side of Manhattan.
0:51.0	Today on the show we've got a question from a parent looking to overcome a language barrier
0:55.2	and a question from a mom who's wondering why all the moms she knows have nannies,
1:00.3	plus triumphs, and Recommendations.
1:03.6	And on Slate Plus, we'll talk about Making Kids Better News Consumers.
1:08.4	Jamila, what have you got this week a Triumph or a Fail?
1:11.6	I think I have a Triumph as I've discussed over the course of the
1:17.2	summer since I've been hosting the podcast. My little one and her dad's
1:21.7	household relocated to LA I'm going out there soon to
1:26.2	join them and so we've been communicating primarily through FaceTime and
1:30.7	phone conversations. And yesterday my co-parent, her father and I, had a, I think we did a really good job giving our six year old a lecture from two sides of the country at one time we joined
1:47.5	forces we broke her down she was high you know she was butt butt but and by the end she was quiet she was contrite and when I spoke to her later in the day I said how do you feel you know she she called me and she was just smiling and she's lost a
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