Whoops...A Baby!
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Dan, Jamilah, and guest host Elizabeth Newcamp answer listener questions from a mom who is contemplating telling her son he was unplanned before his father tells him. Plus, a guide to making friends with other parents from a military mom who has to do it every three years. How can you make the leap from school yard acquaintances to actual friends? For Slate Plus, the hosts reminisce about amusement park memories. Can parents actually have fun? Or is it all about the kids? Sign up for Slate Plus here.
Recommendations:
Elizabeth recommends the U.S National Park Service’s Junior Ranger Program.
And in a stunning moment of unplanned host telepathy - Jamilah and Dan recommend the same thing: creating special handshakes with your kids.
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Podcast produced by Rosemary Belson.
Hosts
Dan Kois is an editor and writer at Slate. He’s the author of How to Be a Family and the co-author of The World Only Spins Forward.
Jamilah Lemieux is a writer, cultural critic, and communications strategist based in Brooklyn, New York.
Elizabeth Newcamp is a traveling mother of three boys who chronicles her misadventures at Dutch, Dutch, Goose!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.8 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcasts for Thursday, November 21st, the |
| 0:11.0 | Whoops, a Baby edition. I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, contributor to Slate's Karen Feeding |
| 0:17.8 | parenting column, and Mom to Naima, who is six and we reside in Los Angeles, |
| 0:22.7 | California. I'm Dan Cois. I'm a writer and editor of Slate and the author of How to Be a Family. |
| 0:27.7 | I'm the parent of Lyra, who's 14, and Harper, who is 12, and we live in Arlington, Virginia. |
| 0:33.7 | I'm Elizabeth New Camp. I write the family travel and homeschool blog, Dutch Dutch Goose. |
| 0:39.0 | I'm a mom to three boys, Henry 7, Oliver 5, and Teddy 3. My husband's in the Air Force, |
| 0:45.7 | so we are currently calling Navar, Florida home. Thank you for joining us, Elizabeth. |
| 0:50.4 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:52.0 | So stay on the show. We've got a question about making friends with other parents at your kids' school and one from a mom wondering if she should tell her son that he was unplanned. |
| 1:01.8 | How do you even broach the subject? |
| 1:03.5 | Should you broach the subject? |
| 1:05.1 | Wait, do you do other people actually plan their children? |
| 1:08.3 | Plus, we have triumphs and fails and recommendations. Dan, |
| 1:12.6 | why don't you go first? Do you have for us this week a triumph or a fail? I have a fail, |
| 1:17.7 | however I maintain it is not my fault. So it's a blameless fail, in my opinion. So I just got back |
| 1:27.4 | into Washington, D.C. earlier today after a sort of whirlwind 24-hour trip with my kids. |
| 1:35.5 | We took them out of school yesterday and took them up to New York for a family event and then brought them back. |
| 1:43.0 | And it was something that we thought was worth taking them out of school for. |
| 1:47.9 | And we talked about it and made that decision and did it. |
| 1:51.4 | And they both are doing very well in school. |
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