On this week’s episode: Jamilah, Elizabeth, and Isaac Butler answer a letter from a concerned mother who worries that she’s not able to fill the void of her step-daughter's biological mother. 

Then, they share some advice for a listener whose son is having trouble reacting appropriately to gifts he doesn’t like. 

In Slate Plus: 14-year-old Zaila Avant-garde wins the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee. 

Recommendations:

Elizabeth recommends the Brickit App: an app that helps you find your missing Lego pieces.

Jamilah’s daughter Naima recommends cooking turkey legs for your kids!

Isaac recommends reading A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself, by Peter Ho Davies. 

Join us on Facebook and email us at [email protected] 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. 

Podcast produced by Morgan Flannery. 

Hosts 

Elizabeth Newcamp is a co-host of Mom and Dad Are Fighting. She's a traveling mother of three boys who chronicles her misadventures at Dutch, Dutch, Goose.

Jamilah Lemieux is a writer, cultural critic, and communications strategist based in Brooklyn, New York.

Isaac Butler is a writer, theater director and host of Slate’s podcast Working. He’s the author of The Method and the co-author of The World Only Spins Forward.

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