Mom & Dad: Live from Miami
b'On this week\\u2019s episode: Dan and Jamilah are live from the Miami Book Fair where they are joined by Pamela Paul, author of How to Raise a Reader and Adam Mansbach, author of Fuck, Now There Are Two of You. This week the hosts discuss scaring their kids with inappropriate books and making the most out of children with different schedules.\\nFor Slate Plus, the hosts discuss if parenting really is harder nowadays\\u2014or do we just hear more about the trials and tribulations in books, blogs or even, ahem, podcasts\\u2026 Sign up for Slate Plus here.\\xa0\\n\\nRecommendations:\\nJamilah recommends non-traditional Thanksgiving dinner.\\xa0\\nDan recommends game-ifying Christmas stockings.\\xa0\\nPamela recommends Lucy Knisley\\u2019s book You Are New.\\xa0\\nAdam recommends the book Laugh Lines: Forty Years Trying to Make Funny People Funnier.\\n\\nJoin us on Facebook and email us at momanddad@slate.com to tell us what you thought of today\\u2019s show and give us ideas for what we should talk about in future episodes. Got questions that you\\u2019d like us to answer? Call and leave us a message at 424-255-7833.\\xa0\\nPodcast produced by Rosemary Belson.\\xa0\\n\\nHosts\\xa0\\nDan Kois is an editor and writer at Slate. He\\u2019s the author of How to Be a Family and the co-author of The World Only Spins Forward.\\nJamilah Lemieux is a writer, cultural critic, and communications strategist based in Brooklyn, New York.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'