Mom and Dad Are Fighting: The Holiday Swirl Edition
Listen to Slate’s parenting podcast about celebrating an interfaith holiday season, and the joy of hate-reading New York Times parenting stories.
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In this week’s edition of Slate’s parenting podcast Mom and Dad Are Fighting, Slate editors Allison Benedikt and Dan Kois are joined by author Susan Katz to talk about the joy and tsuris of celebrating both Hanukkah and Christmas with your children. Then Dan and Allison discuss the rise of the parenting hate-read— articles in the New York Times (and, uh, Slate) that seem designed to enrage parents (but also to keep them clicking).
Other items discussed in the show:
- Susan Katz Miller’s book Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family.
- Amanda Hess in Slate on parenting hate-reads.
- The one and only Allison Benedikt in Slate on parenting hate-reads.
- These outstanding New York Times parenting hate-reads: “What’s In a Name? Ask Google,” “The Nanny Recipes: Skip the Microwave,” “Where Babysitting Is Truly an Art.”
- A current Google Image Search for “Kaleya.”
Mom and Dad recommend:
Dan notes which songs on Beyoncé’s new album, Beyoncé, are great for kids to listen to, and which are not. He also recommends Jerry Smath’s 2005 picture book Once There Was a Christmas Tree.
Allison suggests an old-fashioned toy that’s still going strong, Simon. Simon is waiting for you.
Email us at momanddad@slate.com to tell us what you thought of today’s show and give us ideas for what we should cover in the next edition.