On this week’s episode, Rebecca, Jamilah and Dan answer listener questions from a mom who wants to know if a few drinks while watching the kids is a bad decision or modern parenting. And a question about a grandpa with advancing Alzheimer’s. As usual, we share our triumphs and fails and offer up some recommendations. For Slate Plus, the Faith Smith joins the hosts to talk about her spectacular parenting fail. Sign up for Slate Plus here. 

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On this week’s episode, Rebecca, Jamilah and Dan answer listener questions from a mom who wants to better deal with her kid’s identity and a dad who is insisting his kid learn to drive. As usual, we share our triumphs and fails and offer up some recommendations. For Slate Plus, the hosts answer a bonus listener question. Sign up for Slate Plus here. 

Recommendations:

Rebecca recommends the app, Wordscapes.

Jamilah recommends making your home colorful. 

Dan recommends the lemon and ginger seltzer from Trader Joe’s.

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Podcast produced by Jess Jupiter.

Hosts 

Rebecca Lavoie, Jamilah Lemieux and Dan Kois

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On this week’s episode, Rebecca, Jamilah and Dan answer listener questions from a mom who wants to know if it really makes a difference whether you yell at your kids and another mom who wants to make sure she doesn’t overshare her mental health issues with her kid. As usual, we share our triumphs and fails and offer up some recommendations. For Slate Plus, the hosts talk kid-approved scary movies. Sign up for Slate Plus here. 

Recommendations:

Rebecca recommends having fall-themed actives all fall long.

Jamilah recommends the recently released, The Addams Family movie.

Dan recommends visiting Crab Island. 

Also, if you’re interested in more about the conversation on yelling, check out this article that Dan references.

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Rebecca Lavoie, Jamilah Lemieux and Dan Kois

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On this week’s episode, Rebecca and Dan answer listener questions from a mom struggling with whether it’s okay to offer breast milk to her curious kid and a mom who thinks it’s uncool to be disrupted by a kid during a performance for kids. As usual, we share our triumphs and fails and offer up some recommendations. For Slate Plus, Rebecca makes an announcement. Sign up for Slate Plus here.

Recommendations:

Rebecca recommends you hate watch Ghost Adventures.

Dan recommends Kopp’s Frozen Custard.

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Hosts Rebecca Lavoie and Dan Kois

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On this week’s episode, Rebecca. Jamilah and Dan answer listener questions from a a mom disagreeing with a father about their young boys showering with her and a mom who thinks her child’s unsupportive father shouldn’t be invited to a birthday party. As usual, we share our triumphs and fails and offer up some recommendations. For Slate Plus, Jamilah talks about parental separation anxiety. Sign up for Slate Plus here.

Recommendations:

Rebecca recommends the nonfiction podcast, Passenger List.

Jamilah recommends Whoopi Goldberg’s kid’s series, Sugar Plum Ballerinas.

Dan recommends two plays: Mike Birbiglia’s The New One on Broadway and Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Fairview.

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Podcast produced by Jess Jupiter.

Hosts Rebecca Lavoie, Jamilah Lemieux and Dan Kois

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Hey, Mom and Dad Are Fighting listeners, Hang Up and Listen, Slate's sports show, did a special episode about youth sports, which we thought you might enjoy. If you dig it and would like to hear more, subscribe to Hang Up and Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by Slate’s Allison Benedikt to answer your questions about youth sports. Topics covered include whether and how to teach your kids how to talk trash, how to balance sports time with family leisure time, and whether it’s ethical to watch football if you don’t want your child to play football.

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On this week’s episode, Rebecca. Jamilah and Amy answer listener questions from a questioning the appropriateness of a local organization and a mom who wants her husband to be better about raising a body positive child. As usual, we share our triumphs and fails and offer up some recommendations. For Slate Plus, Amy gives some teacher-ly advice. Sign up for Slate Plus here.

Recommendations:

Rebecca recommends having two dogs in your home.

Jamilah recommends visiting Target to check out their capsule collection, 20 Years of Design for All. 

Amy recommends the audiobook, Why We Sleep.

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Hosts Rebecca Lavoie, Jamilah Lemieux and Amy Scott

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In this episode of How to Raise a Parent, we’re exploring friendship from a kid’s eye view. Have you ever seen your child walk up to a kid they’ve never met before on the playground and spend the whole day together like old friends? Children seem hardwired to create these instant, easy friendships, but for a lot of grownups, making friends doesn’t come so easily. In our quest to reconnect with the pure approach to friendship we see in kids, we talked to two guests with interesting perspectives on the topic: Karen Johnson, a writer and mother of three, and Eileen Kennedy-Moore, PhD, author, and clinical psychologist.

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On this week’s episode, Jamilah and Dan answer listener questions from a mom who is feeling anxious about her teenager wanting to buy condoms and a co-parenting dad who has some concerns. As usual, we share our triumphs and fails and offer up some recommendations. For Slate Plus, Dan shares an excerpt from his newly released book, How To Be A Family. Sign up for Slate Plus here.

Recommendations:

Dan recommends the carnivore compromise, the Impossible burger.

Jamilah recommends the kids book, C Is For Consent.

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Hosts Jamilah Lemieux and Dan Kois

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On this special midweek bonus episode, Dan Kois shares the first chapter of the audiobook of How to Be a Family, plus Dan is joined by retired MADAF all-stars Allison Benedikt and Gabe Roth to talk about the trip around the world, the lessons Dan and his family learned, and all the fails along the way. 

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