Attention-Seeking Toddler Edition

On this week’s episode: Jamilah, Elizabeth, and Aymann discuss their triumphs and fails for the week. Then they answer a question from a listener whose 4-year-old daughter has developed some attention-seeking behaviors with the arrival of a newborn sibling.

Later, they have some advice for someone whose 6-year-old is struggling to learn table manners. How long will mealtimes be a struggle before the constant and repetitive “chew with your mouth shut and sit at the table” bears fruit?

In Slate Plus: What to do with keepsakes and mementos that cause physical and emotional clutter? The group discusses their strategies for preserving, or tossing, those letters, drawings, and awards that accumulate over childhood.

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Podcast production by Jasmine Ellis and Asha Saluja.

Recommendations

Aymann recommends  the subreddit for Dads called Daddit.

Jamilah recommends Shantrelle P. Lewis’ documentary, In Our Mothers’ Gardens on Netflix.

Elizabeth recommends the book American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang.

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.

Aymann Ismail is an award winning staff writer at Slate whose work focuses on identity and religion. 

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