Just to give you a heads up, one of us is bound to say something not suitable for little ears.

It is, after all, the one hour a day I spend away from my children.

Hello, hello. Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, October 14th, the pooping of the corner edition.

Yeah, that's what we're listening to today. My name is Aiman Ismail. I'm a staff writer at Slate Magazine. My four-month-old son is doing plenty of pooping, so I'm going to try and help this letter writer. Yeah, that's my story.

I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer and contributor to Slate's Karen Feeding Parenting Column.

My daughter Naima is eight and a half, has never pooped in a corner and hopefully never will.

And we live in Los Angeles, California.

I'm Elizabeth New Camp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch,

and I'm the mom to three littles, Henry who's nine, Oliver, who's seven,

and Teddy, who's five, and we live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. And with our powers combined,

we create mom and dad are fighting. On today's show, we've got a hilarious question about a kid who is just doing his business in the closet when he should have been in bed two hours ago.

Well, funny for everyone except for his tired family.

Then we'll advise a listener who is just trying to weather the three-nage temper tantrums.

On Slate Plus, we'll be revealing the gadgets that have made our parenting lives easier.

If you love recommendations and you love tech, you'll definitely want to stick around for this one. But first, we're going to kick off the show with some triumphs and fails. Jamila, do you have a triumph for fail this week? I have a fail. I decided that I was going to take a break from smoking weed this week, just because, you know, like, it's a good thing to do every here and there.

I don't wake and bake. I, like, drop Naim off at school and then bake and kind of get myself ready for the rest of the day. And sometimes, depending on, like, what I have going on in the evenings, I smoke again then. So it's not like I'm smoking all day every day, but it's usually, you know, twice a day.

So I was like, okay, cool,

just go a week without.

I made it to 3.41 p.m. yesterday.

I started on Monday. day, but it's usually, you know, twice a day. So I was like, okay, cool, just go a week without.

I made it to 3.41 p.m. yesterday. I started on Monday. I started on Monday and I made it to 3.41 p.m.

To be fair, I had accomplished all of my tasks for the day by 3.41, which never happens.

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