Chickenpox for the Soul Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2018
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Carvell Wallace, Allison Benedikt, and Gabriel Roth debate the ethics of exposing anti-vaxxer's kids to the chicken pox, when to step in on undeserved discipline, suspicious Harriet Tubman essays, and much more. Please fill out the Slate podcast survey at slate.com/podcastsurvey
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.6 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, March the 1st, the Chicken Pox for the Soul edition. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Gabriel Roth. I'm an editor at Slate, and I'm the father of Eliza, who is seven, and Leo, who is three and a half. And I'm Carva Wallace, a writer and editor based in Oakland, California, but today recording from Brooklyn, New York. And I'm the father of Georgia, who is 12, and Ezra, who is 14. And I'm Allison Benedict, filling in for Rebecca, also an editor at Slate, and I'm the mom of Harry, who is nine, Sam, seven, and Wally, five on Sunday. |
| 0:42.8 | Today, in an almost unprecedented development on this podcast, the three hosts are all in the same room. |
| 0:50.0 | You can judge for yourself whether that makes the show better or worse. |
| 0:53.8 | We've got questions from listeners. |
| 0:55.5 | More awkward. |
| 0:56.7 | Will it be more or less awkward? |
| 0:59.0 | You be the judge. |
| 1:00.7 | We've got questions from a listener whose kid goes to preschool with some anti-vax families who covet her daughter's chicken pox. |
| 1:08.7 | And another whose husband has a quick temper with the kids, |
| 1:11.9 | and she's not sure how to talk to him about that. Plus, as always, we'll have our triumphs, |
| 1:16.0 | we'll have our fails. We'll recommend things to you. And on Slate Plus, we'll be talking about |
| 1:21.1 | how we've discussed the fallout from the Parkland shooting with our kids. First up, triumphs |
| 1:26.4 | and fails. Carvel, welcome to New York. Has it been a |
| 1:30.0 | triumph or a fail week? It's been something of a fail week because the fact that I'm in New York |
| 1:37.0 | means that our kids had to get to school on their own this week, which is not something they've done |
| 1:41.7 | a whole lot. So the arrangement ended up working that so Joe walks to her job. She lives within walking distance of her job, which is not something they've done a whole lot. So the arrangement ended up working |
| 1:44.6 | that so Joe walks to her job. She lives within walking distance of her job, which is why she's |
| 1:48.5 | never going to leave that job. And she gets to walk around the lake. And then Georgia, she can take |
| 1:54.6 | Bart to her school and then Ezra can walk to his school. His school's like maybe a half an hour |
| 1:59.9 | walk. He walks home, but walking in the |
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