Mom and Dad Are Fighting: Candy Cane Lane Edition
Slate’s parenting podcast debates whether a mother-in-law is stealing all the great Christmas moments with the kids.
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Episode Notes
On this week’s episode: Dan and Jamilah are joined by guest host Michelle Herman, novelist, professor, and Care and Feeding columnist. They answer listener questions from a parent looking for ways to make Christmas enjoyable and a mother who is feeling left out of mother-child bonding experiences. For Slate Plus, Dan tells Lyra’s favorite new joke. (It’s awful.) Sign up for Slate Plus here.
Recommendations:
Michelle recommends asking your kids for advice. And not just tech advice!
Jamilah recommends How to Be a Family: The Year I Dragged My Kids Around the World to Find a New Way to Be Together by Dan Kois. Perhaps you’ve heard of it?
Dan recommends “Hush,” a Season 3 episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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Podcast produced by Rosemary Belson.
