Better Luck This Year Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2015
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Listen to Slate's parenting podcast where we discuss parents' New Year's resolutions and take questions from non-parents.
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| 0:26.4 | explicit language |
| 0:29.4 | Hello happy new year and welcome to Mom and Dad are fighting, Slate's Parenting |
| 0:35.6 | Podcast for Thursday, January 1st, the Better Luck This Year Edition. |
| 0:40.2 | I'm Allison Benedict, an editor at Slate and the mom of Harry Six, Sam Three, and Wally One. |
| 0:46.0 | Dan is off this week and joining me today instead is the dad I actually fight with in real life my husband so uncomfortable my husband John |
| 0:56.2 | Cook hello dear in addition to being Harry Sam and Wally's father and a slate |
| 1:01.6 | spouse is also the investigations editor at |
| 1:04.6 | ochre media or will be starting next week. |
| 1:07.8 | Hi John Cook! |
| 1:09.8 | Hey Hun! |
| 1:11.2 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:12.2 | Thanks for coming. |
| 1:13.0 | John doesn't listen to this show, so he has no idea what's happening. |
| 1:16.0 | I have listened. |
| 1:17.0 | On today's show, we'll be joined by several Slate Staffers who will give us their parenting resolutions for 2015. |
| 1:24.1 | Then we'll take parenting questions from some other slate staffers, |
| 1:27.3 | the child free ones, including our producer Anne, |
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