Back to School Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2015
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Slate's parenting podcast, Allison Benedikt and Dan Kois discuss parental math anxiety and back-to-school from the teacher's perspective.
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| 0:58.0 | Hello and welcome to mom and dad are fighting, Slate's Parenting |
| 1:06.2 | Podcast for Thursday, August 27th, the Back to School Edition. I'm Dan Coise. |
| 1:11.1 | I'm an editor at Slate and I'm the dad of Lyra who's 10 and Harper who is now 8 |
| 1:15.7 | Happy birthday Harper. |
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