Breast Milk Taste Test
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode, Rebecca and Dan answer listener questions from a mom struggling with whether it’s okay to offer breast milk to her curious kid and a mom who thinks it’s uncool to be disrupted by a kid during a performance for kids. As usual, we share our triumphs and fails and offer up some recommendations. For Slate Plus, Rebecca makes an announcement. Sign up for Slate Plus here.
Recommendations:
Rebecca recommends you hate watch Ghost Adventures.
Dan recommends Kopp’s Frozen Custard.
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Podcast produced by Jess Jupiter.
Hosts Rebecca Lavoie and Dan Kois
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.8 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday, October 10th, the Breast Milk Taste Test Edition. |
| 0:13.2 | I'm Rebecca Levoy, a journalist and host of the podcast, Crime Writers On. |
| 0:17.0 | I live in New Hampshire, and my kids are Henry, who's 18, Teddy, who is 16 and a half, and my |
| 0:22.1 | stepdaughter Lily, who is 19. |
| 0:24.2 | And I'm Dan Cois. I'm an editor at Slate and the author of How to Be a Family. |
| 0:28.7 | In stores now, I'm the dad of Lyra, who's 14, and Harper, who is 12. |
| 0:33.9 | Today on the show, we've got a question from a parent wondering whether it's cool or weird to let her a six-year-old sample her breast milk. |
| 0:41.9 | Plus, a question about whether it's okay or not okay to be super annoyed by a chatty kid at the theater. |
| 0:49.2 | And on Slate Plus, I'll talk more about announcement I'm making on today's show. |
| 0:54.2 | If you want to hear that conversation, join us on Slate Plus at slate.com slash mom and dad plus. |
| 1:00.0 | Now, on to the show. |
| 1:01.5 | Before we begin, I thought I would point out that several listeners on the Facebook page to last week's episode thought that I was a little yelling, that I was a little |
| 1:14.7 | angry last week, that I was yelling at dads too much. Some people were like, why are they |
| 1:23.5 | yelling? They also pointed to your yelling the week before when you were, you had, |
| 1:28.0 | you got exercised about a few things. And then also several dads were like, Dan, you're being, |
| 1:33.8 | you're being too mean to dads. When you literally say, fuck that dad, you're being too mean to dads. |
| 1:41.8 | Now, I would counter that the show is not called mom and dad are soothing. |
| 1:48.0 | The show is called mom, dad are fighting. |
| 1:50.1 | So we do yell sometimes. |
| 1:51.5 | But I'm going to try, Rebecca, to tone it down this week a little. |
| 1:56.3 | I'm going to try not to yell. |
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