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Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

Broken Promises Edition

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

Slate Audio

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Gabriel Roth, Rebecca Lavoie, and Carvell Wallace discuss follow-up to the piña colada censorship story, husbands that break promises, estranged fathers, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:03.2

Welcome to mom and daughter

0:08.7

and daughter fighting slates parenting podcast for

0:13.9

Thursday March 7th Broken Promises Edition I'm Gabriel Roth I'm the

0:18.2

editorial director of slate podcast and I'm the father of Leo who is four and Eliza who is eight.

0:23.0

I'm Rebecca Lervoy. I'm a journalist and podcaster in New Hampshire and I am

0:26.7

mom to Henry who is 17. Teddy who is 16 and my stepdaughter Lily who is 18.

0:31.6

And I'm Carvel Wallace, a writer in

0:33.2

podcaster in Oakland, California, and I'm the father to Georgia, who

0:36.2

was 13 and Ezra, who as of last week is 16.

0:40.7

Happy birthday Ezra.

0:42.2

Today on our show, we have a question about a husband who can't keep his promises and another about a kid who has some difficult questions about why her grandfather isn't in the picture.

0:51.0

Plus as always we'll have triumphs, we'll have fails, we'll make

0:54.8

recommendations, and on Slate Plus what next host Mary Harris has some things to say about

1:02.1

homework.

1:03.3

All that's coming up on mom and dad are fighting.

1:07.3

Okay, time now for triumphs and fails.

1:09.6

Rebecca, you want to go first?

1:11.0

Sure, so this is a follow-up on a fail.

1:14.0

Anyone to listen to the podcast two weeks ago would have heard me talk about the...

1:19.0

Shall we call it censorship?

1:21.0

Yes, let's call it censorship of my son and his friends, Battle of the

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