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Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

You Will Have Fun and You Will Like It Edition

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

Slate Audio

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 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.  In Slate Plus: The hosts compete over who has allowed their kid to see the worst TV show. Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on MADAF each week, and no ads. Sign up now to listen and support our work. 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.  Join us on Facebook and email us at momanddad@slate.com to ask us new questions, tell us what you thought of today’s show, and give us ideas about what we should talk about in future episodes.  Tune in to The Kids Are Asleep, the hilarious Slate Live show hosted by Jamilah. Catch it via Slate’s Facebook or YouTube on Thursdays at 10:00 p.m. ET / 7:00 p.m. PT.    Podcast produced by Rosemary Belson.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:06.1

Welcome to Mom & Dadr Frighting, Slates Parenting Podcast for Thursday, November 12th.

0:11.0

You will have fun and you will like it.

0:14.0

Addition.

0:15.0

I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, contributor to Slates Parent Feeding Parenting Column,

0:20.0

host of Slates the Kids or a Sleep, and mom to Naima who is seven and live in Los Angeles, California.

0:27.0

I'm Elizabeth Newkamp, I write the homeschool and family travel blog Dutch Dutch Goose.

0:31.0

I'm the mom to three littles, Henry who's eight, Oliver who's six, and Teddy who is four,

0:36.0

and I'm located in Navar, Florida.

0:39.0

Hey, I'm Dan Coice, I'm a writer for Slate, I'm the author of the book, How to Be a Family.

0:42.0

I'm the dad of Lyra, who's a hundred, and Harper who's also a hundred.

0:46.0

I'm also a hundred.

0:48.0

We all live in Harlington, Virginia.

0:51.0

Every week I hesitate at the age thing because time is no longer...

0:56.0

And that is no longer a seven-year-old, so I can empathize with you all being a hundred,

1:05.0

because that means the name is at least 80.

1:08.0

Today on the show we've got a question about finding the proper time to celebrate a pregnancy.

1:12.0

After a long and painful road to conception, when is it okay to get excited about the baby's arrival

1:17.0

without feeling like you're jinxing something?

1:20.0

We also have a question from a family that realized during lockdown that they don't actually know

1:25.0

how to have a good time with one another.

1:28.0

And as always, we've got triumphs and fails and recommendations.

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