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

Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcasts for Thursday, March 3rd, the Vanilla Sex Edition.

I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer and contributor to Slate's Karen feeding parenting column, and mom to Naima, who's just about nine, and we live in Los Angeles, California. I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch, Goose. I'm the mom to three littles, Henry who's nine, Oliver who's seven, and Teddy Who's five. We live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Hey, I'm Dan Kuis. I'm a writer at Slate. I'm the author of the book How to Be a Family. I'm the dad of Lyra, who's 16, and Harper, who's 14, and we live in Harlington, Virginia.

Who? It's who? I don't know her. I don't know her. You. We don't know him. We don't know him anymore. Welcome back, Dan.

Thanks. I am happy to be back working at Slate. I've been gone for six months on book leave, and I wrote a book. It's terrible, but a little bit of it at least is done.

So book leave was a success. Thank you so much for letting me go away for a little while.

But unfortunately, this is more of a pop-by than a take off your coat and

stay a while one, right? That's correct. This is going to be my last mom and dad are fighting for a while.

I wanted to stop back in to say bye to everyone. One last time, but I have now reached the point of parenting.

It took much longer than I expected it to, honestly, when we launched this podcast like 10 years ago now. But I've reached the point of parenting. It took much longer than I expected it to, honestly, when we launched this podcast like 10 years ago now.

But I've reached the point in parenting where my kids do not want me to talk about them anymore.

They are no longer interested in me sharing information about their lives, sharing my fails with regards to them, sharing funny stories about the

shit that they do. They just don't want that out there anymore. And so I am stepping back

from the podcast to respect those wishes, even though, in my opinion, they should embrace fame.

The moment, all of us who have mined our children for content, fear.

I mean, it's a miracle it took this long, honestly.

And if they ever go through the archives of the very early days before Lyra was checking

the transcripts every week for her name, they'll murder me.

But I got away with it up until now.

You had a good run, Dan.

Yep.

But Fear Not Listeners, Dan and other parents of teens will be popping by on occasion to tackle questions related to raising those bigger children that Elizabeth and I don't really know too much about.

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