Abstraction of Hooptyism Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2017
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Carvell Wallace, Rebecca Lavoie and Gabriel Roth discuss the politics of choosing a guardian for your kids and what to do about a daycare center that's been a little lax on vaccines. Plus Carvell's hit-and-run and Rebecca's new car-related freedom in "Triumphs and Fails".
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:09.6 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcasts for Thursday, August 31st, |
| 0:14.0 | the Abstraction of Hoopteism Edition. I'm Gabriel Roth, an editor at Slate, and the patriarch of a |
| 0:18.9 | family that includes Eliza, age six, and Leo, who is three. |
| 0:23.1 | I'm Rebecca Lavoie. |
| 0:24.3 | I'm a podcaster living in New Hampshire. |
| 0:26.1 | I'm the mom of Henry, who's 16, stepmom to Lily, who is 17, also mom to Teddy, who is 14. |
| 0:32.1 | And for the next couple weeks, I am foster sort of mom to a wonderful German exchange student named Moritz. He is 15. |
| 0:42.3 | Wow. And my name is Carva Wallace. I'm a writer and editor in Oakland. And I'm the father to Georgia, |
| 0:49.1 | who is as of today, 12 years old. and Ezra, who is 14. |
| 0:55.8 | Happy birthday, Georgia. |
| 0:57.4 | Yeah, happy birthday. |
| 0:58.3 | You said today she's 12 years old? |
| 1:02.2 | Today, today's her, today's the 12th anniversary. |
| 1:04.6 | What are you doing for her birthday? |
| 1:05.7 | What's happening for our birthday? |
| 1:07.9 | Pretty low-key. |
| 1:09.2 | We're going to, she's meeting up with her friends after school and they're going to go to the movies, and then we're going to all meet up and have a family dinner. She isn't really, she's a little, like, too cool for, like, a party at this point. That's the way she's handling it. Yeah. And her friends don't do that anymore. They all just kind of, like, meet for these cosmopolitan like dinners and like engagements. |
| 1:28.2 | It's very, very grown up. |
| 1:30.5 | 12 year olds, man. |
| 1:31.3 | Yeah, drinks with friends, you know. |
| 1:34.4 | Birthday drinks. |
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