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Welcome to mom and dad are fighting,

Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday, August 30th, The Age of Fear

Edition.

I'm Gabriel Roth.

I'm an editor at Slate and I'm the father of Eliza, who is Seven, and Leo who is Four.

I'm Rebecca Lefoy.

I'm a journalist and podcaster in New Hampshire and I am Mom 2 Henry who was 17,

Teddy who is 15 and a half and my stepdaughter Lily who is 18.

And I'm Carvel Wallace, a writer in podcaster in Oakland, California, and I'm the father to Georgia, who is 12, but only for two more days, and Ezra who is 15.

Today on our show, we'll be joined by Kim Brooks. She's the author of the new book

Small Animals Parenthood in the Age of Fear. Plus we have a question highly

pertinent to the age of fear about what to do when you find out that your neighbor is a registered sex offender.

As always, we'll have Triumph and Fails.

We'll make recommendations and on Slate Plus, we're going to dig through the mail back. Let's start with Triumph and

Fales. Rebecca, you want to go first to Triumph for Fail?

Fail.

Although I think the fail belongs more to one of my kids than me. I tried to handle as best as I could,

but I'm still going to talk about it as a fail because it felt like one of the time.

I got a call last week at work. It was a couple days before the start of school, school started yesterday,

so this was like Thursday or Friday, from the guidance counselor of Teddy's grade, his wonderful

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