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🗓️ 11 December 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: a listener noticed that her six-year-old isn’t sharing well when his friends come over. He even told one friend to leave mid playdate. They’re wondering how to help her kid be a better host and, if things become overwhelming, take some time for himself instead of getting upset.
Recommendations:
Jamilah recommends eating duck.
Zak recommends tossing out the tools you don’t reach for, inspired by Conor Barnes’ 100 Tips For A Better Life.
Elizabeth recommends Group Buy Ins. The one she uses is called Storms In The Sky.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Mom and Dadder Fighting Slate's Parenting Podcasts for Monday, December 11th, |
| 0:07.8 | The Friend Flip Flop-Flophing Edition. |
| 0:10.6 | I'm Elizabeth New Camp. |
| 0:11.8 | I write the Homes Full and Family Travel blog Dutch Goose. I'm Elizabeth New Camp I write the homes full and family travel blog Dutch Goose I'm the mom of three little |
| 0:15.8 | Henry who's 11 Oliver who's 9 and Teddy who's 7 we live in Tokyo Japan |
| 0:26.9 | I'm Jamil Lemieux, a writer, contributed a slates care feeding parents in column, and mom to Naima, who's 10, and we live in Los Angeles. |
| 0:30.7 | I'm Zach Rosen. |
| 0:31.7 | I host another podcast. It's called the Best Advice Show and I'm dad to Noah who's six |
| 0:36.4 | and Amy who's three we live in Detroit. On today's show we help a listener who's six year old |
| 0:42.1 | wants to hang out with friends until he doesn't. |
| 0:45.8 | How can this parent make sure an upcoming sleepover goes smoothly? |
| 0:49.7 | Then we'll have recommendations and some advice from you as we dive into the mailbag. |
| 0:54.0 | See you back here in a minute. |
| 0:59.1 | We're back and diving right into our listener question. |
| 1:01.8 | Hello, here's a question for you concerning my six-year-old's attitude towards his friends. |
| 1:07.0 | My child loves having friends over and we're happy to organize one-on-one playdates whenever we can. |
| 1:11.0 | When this happens, he'll be bursting with |
| 1:12.9 | anticipation up to 24 hours in advance. However whenever my child is having a |
| 1:17.6 | play date at our house he has an overbearing attitude with his friends |
| 1:21.0 | doesn't matter which ones and keeps telling them no or stop. with his |
| 1:23.7 | friends, and keeps telling them no or stop when they want to play with any of his toys or |
| 1:27.2 | suggest a new game. On the last occasion the friend was so overwhelmed by this that |
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