Binky Barter Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2018
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Rebecca Lavoie, Carvell Wallace and Katherine Goldstein discuss a mostly successful binky-for-trains program, answer questions about a difficult divorce, and reading, plus more "Triumphs and Fails" and recommendations.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:09.6 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting Slate's Parenting Podcasts for Thursday, February 1st, the Binky Barter edition. |
| 0:16.7 | I'm Rebecca LaVoy, a journalist and podcaster in New Hampshire, and I am Mom to Henry who is 16, Teddy who is 15, and a stepdaughter, Lily, who is 17. |
| 0:25.2 | And I'm Carvel Wallace, a journalist and podcaster in Oakland, California. |
| 0:28.8 | And I'm the father to Georgia who is 12, and Ezra, who is 14. |
| 0:32.7 | And I'm Catherine Goldstein. |
| 0:34.2 | I'm a journalist who covers women in work, and I'm the mom to Asher, who is two and a half. |
| 0:41.0 | And Catherine is a hero because she showed up for Gabe, who is feeling under the weather this week. |
| 0:46.8 | And we'll also be hearing from Catherine in our Slate Plus edition. |
| 0:50.4 | I'm glad you're here, actually, because you will follow up with us on that religious slash family vacation dilemma you told us about a few weeks ago. Today we'll also be taking |
| 1:00.3 | listener questions from a mother of three facing a really challenging personal situation and |
| 1:05.8 | we'll hear from a mom whose kid just isn't into reading. All that plus recommendations, triumphs, and fails. So let's get |
| 1:13.7 | to it. Carvel, do you have a triumph or a fail this week? Oh, man, I have so many things that are |
| 1:20.6 | triumphs and fails. And I was torn about what to talk about. But I'm going to talk about something |
| 1:24.5 | that's a little serious, which is that listeners to the show know that there have been many a triumph slash fail involving my oldest, the great |
| 1:34.6 | Ezra Wallace, who, as a side note, did complete his run of Danny in the Deep Blue Sea and was |
| 1:41.2 | absolutely amazing. |
| 1:43.5 | Like, it was stunning. His performance was mind-blowing. |
| 1:47.1 | And he did memorize his lines and he, I mean, it just, you know, it was like, it was fantastic. |
| 1:55.9 | The downside of that is that he, his academics fell into the actual toilet over the course of this semester |
| 2:03.3 | because the rehearsal schedule was so intense and he has historically exhibited, let's just |
| 2:09.8 | say, an inability to manage multiple things successfully. So he ended up having just like a complete |
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