You Will Have Fun and You Will Like It Edition
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🗓️ 12 November 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Jamilah, Elizabeth, and Dan debate when it’s appropriate to celebrate a sibling’s pregnancy, especially if the road to conception has been tough. How can you delineate between excitement and celebration so the mom-to-be feels supported without feeling pressure to share the news with others, if that’s not something she’s comfortable with at this stage? They also advise a family who has realized—they don’t actually know how to have fun as a unit. It turns out, the key to family fun is that someone is probably always not thrilled. But, sometimes, you just gotta suck it up.
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Recommendations:
Dan recommends Flamer by Mike Curato.
Elizabeth recommends Flipbelt’s running pants.
Jamilah recommends shopping for the holidays at Kido.
Bonus Links:
The Rise and Fall of Baby Einstein by Ruth Graham.
Mike Birbiglia’s tweet that had a number of great replies recommending small or local businesses that people can support when shopping this upcoming holiday season.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.8 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Friday, Slate's Parenting Podcasts for Thursday, November |
| 0:10.4 | 12th, the You Will Have Fun and You Will Like It Edition. |
| 0:15.1 | I'm Jimmy Lillamue, a writer, contributor to Slate's Karen Feeding Parenting Column, |
| 0:20.2 | host of Slates The Kids Are Asleep, and mom to Naima, who is seven, and we live in Los Angeles, California. I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog Dutch Dutch Goose. I'm the mom to three littles, Henry, who's eight, Oliver, who's six, and Teddy who is four. And I'm located in Navar, Florida. |
| 0:39.3 | Hey, I'm Dan Cois. I'm a writer for Slate. I'm the author of the book, How to Be a Family. |
| 0:42.9 | I'm the dad of Lyra, who's 100, and Harper, who's also 100. I'm also 100. We all live in |
| 0:48.9 | Arlington, Virginia. Every week, I hesitate at the age thing, because time is no longer real and that is no longer a |
| 1:01.0 | seven-year-old so I can empathize with you all being 100 because that means the name is |
| 1:06.2 | at least 80 today on the show we've got a question about finding the proper time to celebrate a |
| 1:11.2 | pregnancy. After a long and painful road to conception, when is it okay to get excited about |
| 1:16.4 | the baby's arrival without feeling like you're jinxing something? We also have a question |
| 1:21.5 | from a family that realized during lockdown that they don't actually know how to have a good |
| 1:26.5 | time with one another. |
| 1:30.9 | And as always, we've got triumphs and fails and recommendations. |
| 1:32.4 | Let's start with you, Elizabeth. |
| 1:35.8 | Do you have a triumph or a fail for us this week? |
| 1:40.3 | I am dying to hear what you have to say this week. |
| 1:41.6 | I have a fail. |
| 1:47.9 | So we fled Florida for the mountains of Tennessee in a tiny house, |
| 1:54.3 | which is like legitimately one of those tiny houses you see on HGTV. They have like this community of them where they're like spaced in the woods. And apparently nobody goes there |
| 1:59.2 | during the week because it was basically just us |
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