Carpool Liability Waiver
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2019
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: The hosts answer listener questions about a mom who has some strong concerns about their kid carpooling and a friend who’s worried that they might be overstepping. As usual, we share our triumphs and fails and offer up some recommendations. For Slate Plus, we take another question from a listener.
Recommendations:
Rebecca recommends the travel app, Tripit.
Dan recommends the book, The Gifted School by Bruce Halsinger.
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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, July 18th, the Carpool Liability Waiver Edition. |
| 0:13.7 | I'm Dan Cois. I'm an editor at Slate. I'm the author of How to Be a Family, which is coming in September. |
| 0:18.5 | And I'm the dad of Lyra, who's 14, and Harper, who's 11. |
| 0:21.7 | I'm Rebecca Levoy. I'm a journalist and podcaster in New Hampshire. And I am mom to Henry, |
| 0:26.4 | who is almost 18, Teddy, who is 16 and a half, and my stepdaughter, Lily, who is 19. |
| 0:31.4 | So today on the show, we've got a mom who is freaking out about carpooling and a woman who |
| 0:36.9 | just wants her mom friend to relax about her |
| 0:39.9 | rambunctious toddler. Plus, triumphs and fails and recommendations. But first, before any of that, |
| 0:45.4 | Rebecca, I want a driving report from Teddy. Where has he gone this week? Good question. Well, |
| 0:52.0 | we were away for part of the week, which i'm going to talk about in part of |
| 0:55.9 | this podcast but when we got back um the boys were supposed to go back to their dads and he was |
| 1:01.5 | taking them on a quick trip to visit his parents in florida so kevin and i were you know we thought |
| 1:07.2 | they they were gone we were hanging out on the deck uh and i see see Henry's car drive up or what I have herefore to refer to as Henry's car, drive up to the house. |
| 1:17.2 | And Teddy's in the front seat because he wanted to come by and get like some shorts or something to bring to Florida with him. |
| 1:22.2 | So he's just like tootling around. |
| 1:24.7 | I am somewhat like encouraging him to sort of stay in town, back and forth from |
| 1:29.7 | his dad's visiting friends in town so far. We haven't done any like go to Target for me situations yet |
| 1:35.6 | because you've got a highway to get there. And I'm sure he'll be fine and that will just happen. |
| 1:40.3 | But I'm not putting him in that situation intentionally. But he's doing great. He seems to be |
| 1:44.0 | very comfortable. He says he's happy to be driving. And that is all I can ask for at this point. Will you just promise me that he will not drive in Florida because those people are fucking crazy? I don't think he's going to have the opportunity to drive in Florida. But I remember last time I was in Florida thinking the same thing. So I think we're in the same thing about that. I have never spent a minute on a road in Florida, not assuming I was just about to perish in a fiery explosive accident. It is completely insane. All right. So let's start with triumphs and fails today. Rebecca, what do you have for us today? A triumph or a fail? |
| 2:18.9 | I've got a good triumph. |
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