What's Up With Your Boyfriend?
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: The hosts answer listener questions about a mom who wants to know what to do about a sexist boyfriend and a mom who wants to know what to do about her kid being left out in the dark after hanging with a friend. We also welcome Jakada Imani as this week’s special host. As usual, we share our triumphs and fails and offer up some recommendations. On Slate Plus, Jakada talks about how he manages his career and family.
Recommendations:
Rebecca recommends the German time-traveling show, Dark.
Ruth recommends getting a vacation babysitter.
Jakada recommends an after dinner family walk.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:06.2 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, July 4th, 2019. |
| 0:11.9 | The What's Up with Your Boyfriend Edition. |
| 0:14.3 | I'm Rebecca LaVoy. I am mom to Henry, who is 17, Teddy, who is 16 and a half, and my |
| 0:19.1 | stepdaughter Lily, who is 19. I'm Ruth Graham. I'm a staff |
| 0:23.0 | writer at Slate, and I'm Mom to Mary, who is three years old. I'm Jakata Imani. I'm a spiritually |
| 0:28.9 | rooted coach and trainer doing nonprofit management. I work and live here in Oakland, California. |
| 0:34.1 | I have a whole host, a little tribe of kids. I have a blended family, so I have |
| 0:39.1 | six kids total. Jael 23 is the oldest. Eli is my bonus son, he's 21, and then Teia is 18, |
| 0:48.9 | and Yame is starting 17 this very month, and then Phoenix is 16, my partner's youngest son, and then Keone, |
| 0:57.9 | my nine-year-old girl bringing up the rear. So I have a whole basketball team plus one to come off the bench. |
| 1:04.0 | Wow. Well, we're going to hear more about that later in the show. But today we've got a question from a |
| 1:09.4 | listener struggling to deal with her mother-in-law's |
| 1:11.9 | super jerky boyfriend. We've also got a question about what to do when what was supposed to be |
| 1:17.4 | a fun sleepover turned into a potentially dangerous situation. But first, we're going to kick off the show |
| 1:23.7 | as usual with triumphs and fails. Ruth, do you have a triumph or a fail for us? |
| 1:28.0 | I have a triumph this week. My family, my husband and my daughter and I just got back from |
| 1:33.8 | a long, luxurious nine-day vacation. And we, a vacation with friends at like a summer rental |
| 1:40.9 | house. It actually was not luxurious, but it was fantastic. |
| 1:49.1 | But it was a long drive. It was, it's about a five and a half hour drive there without like kid potty breaks and kid nonsense and kid running around breaks and all that. So it's a, |
| 1:54.1 | it's a long drive when you factor in kid stops. And my daughter has actually always been a good traveler, and we hook her up with, you know, books. We don't do screen time in the car, but we do books and coloring and family games and I spy and all of that. And she's always been a really good traveler. This was the first long trip we've taken since we turned her car seat facing forward, and I don't know if it was that, |
| 2:18.2 | or if it was now that she has a little more sense that vacation, you know, something awesome is at the |
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