Ages Ten And Up Edition

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

Slate Audio

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This week, Rebecca, Gabe, and guest host Katherine answer listener questions about putting the pressure on your kid after getting into a prestige school and solutions on getting your kids to play nice with each other. And as usual, we share our triumphs and fails and offer up some recommendations.

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:05.7	Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, March 28th, the Ages 10 and Up edition.
0:12.5	I'm Gabriel Roth. I'm the editorial director of Slate Podcasts, and I'm the father of Eliza, who is 8, and Leo, who is 4.
0:18.2	I'm Rebecca Lavoie. I'm a journalist and podcaster in New Hampshire, and I am mom to Henry, who is 17, Teddy, who is four. I'm Rebecca Levoy. I'm a journalist and podcaster in New Hampshire,
0:21.3	and I am mom to Henry who is 17, Teddy who is 16, and my stepdaughter Lily, who is 18.
0:27.4	And I'm Catherine Goldstein. I'm the creator and host of the Double Shift podcast, a show about a new
0:32.5	generation of working moms. And I am the mom to Asher, who is three and a half.
0:38.4	Carvel Walls will be back next week.
0:40.3	Today on our show, we've got a question about playdate etiquette, and we've got another
0:45.3	from a mom whose daughter has been accepted to a fancy private school and who finds
0:49.9	herself experiencing strange and ambivalent feelings.
0:53.2	As always, we will have triumphs and fails.
0:55.1	We'll make recommendations on Slate Plus. I'm going to find out something about Catherine's
1:01.2	findings from a controversial recent episode of the double shift. But we're going to start with
1:06.8	triumphs and fails. Rebecca, you want to go first to triumph or fail?
1:12.5	I have, you know what?
1:14.5	I'm going to let you decide what it is, okay?
1:15.6	It's either a triumph or fail.
1:19.0	I have been completely trolled by my son, Henry,
1:24.5	who apparently has been receiving college acceptances and rejections for the last few weeks and just not telling his parents about them.
1:27.2	Incredible fail. What? Just about them. Incredible fail.
1:28.1	What?
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