Bible Movies Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2017
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Gabriel Roth and Carvell Wallace answer listener calls concerning unwanted bible movies and when parents should explain sibling-relationship boundaries to their kids. Also, a difficult fail regarding rising housing prices in the Bay Area and a trip update from Dan Kois in Slate Plus.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:06.0 | Hello and welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday, April 27th, the Bible Movies Edition. |
| 0:12.6 | I'm Gabriel Roth and editor at Slate and the dad of Eliza 6 and Leo, who's almost three. |
| 0:17.6 | My name is Carvel. I am a freelance writer, and I am the father of Ezra, who is 14, and Georgia, who is 11. |
| 0:26.8 | Rebecca is on vacation with her family this week. She'll be back with us next time. This week, |
| 0:31.7 | we're going to answer some questions that listeners have written in to us over our email address, |
| 0:37.1 | which is mom and dad at slate.com. |
| 0:39.8 | If you have questions that you would like us to wrestle with, you should also email us |
| 0:43.7 | at that address, mom and dad at slate.com. |
| 0:48.6 | Then for Slate Plus members, you're going to hear Dan Koy's former host of this show, |
| 0:53.2 | give a report. |
| 0:57.6 | He's finished the first leg of his families around the world sojourn. |
| 0:58.9 | They're leaving New Zealand. |
| 1:01.1 | They're moving, I think, to Holland. |
| 1:06.4 | Here, how things went in New Zealand from Dan Cois on the Slate Plus segment of the show. |
| 1:12.1 | If you're not yet a plus member, you can get it by going to slate.com slash mom and dad plus or by downloading our iOS app. Search for slate in the app store or go to slate.com slash app and get 90 days of |
| 1:18.7 | Slate Plus absolutely free, including the chance to hear Dan Coise's trip report. Okay. And if you |
| 1:24.5 | haven't yet liked us on Facebook, like us on Facebook.com slash mom and dad are fighting. That's enough announcements from me. Let's go to triumphs and fails. Carvel, do you have a parenting triumph or fail for us? |
| 1:39.7 | Well, I have, I think it's a fail, but I'm not 100% sure. |
| 1:44.3 | And this is some kind of serious. |
| 1:46.2 | So I'm going to tell you about something that's going on right now in our family's experience, which is that this has to do with the rising cost of living in the Bay Area and some of the changes that's forcing on our family. |
| 1:59.3 | So just yesterday, a report came out on a local station that reported that now, as of this last report, housing and urban development, has listed six figures for a family of four as officially low income in the Bay Area. |
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