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Pretty White Boy Edition
Category: Health
Duration: 00:51:18
Publish Date: 2020-01-09 19:00:00
Description:

On this week’s episode: Dan and Jamilah are joined by Laura Tisdel to answer listener questions. A mom wonders how to deal with the privilege disparity between her biracial black daughter and her white son after she noticed her son getting preferential treatment at daycare. Plus, a mom asks about taking the fall for her daughter when her daughter feels uncomfortable standing up to a friend. For Slate Plus, the hosts talk about the parenting vices they won’t be giving up in 2020. Sign up for Slate Plus here.

 

Recommendations:


Laura recommends Rivers, Roads & Rails, a game where you collect pieces to make transportation pathways, plus Catherine Newman's list of her favorite games.

Dan recommends Azul, a tile strategy game where you pretend to be building Portuguese tile art.

 

Jamilah recommends Surviving R. Kelly Part II: The Reckoning on Lifetime.



Additional Reading:

The Color Complex by Kathy Russell, Midge Wilson and Ronald Hall.


In 2020, Skip Your Resolutions—Embrace a Vice by Slate Staff.


Join us on Facebook and email us at momanddad@slate.com to tell us what you thought of today’s show and give us ideas for what we should talk about in future episodes. Got questions that you’d like us to answer? Call and leave us a message at 424-255-7833.

 

Audio engineering by Merritt Jacob.


Podcast produced by Rosemary Belson.

 

Hosts


Dan Kois is an editor and writer at Slate. He’s the author of How to Be a Family and the co-author of The World Only Spins Forward.


Jamilah Lemieux is a writer, cultural critic, and communications strategist based in California.


Laura Tisdel is a book editor at Penguin Random House. 

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