The following podcast contains explicit language. Welcome to mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, July 5th, the co-parenting

Canundrum Edition.

I'm Rebecca Lervoy, a journalist and podcaster in New Hampshire and I am Mom to Henry who is 16, Teddy who is 15 and a stepdaughter

Lily who is 18.

And I'm Carver Wallace, a writer and podcaster based in Oakland, California, but today

recording live from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and I'm the father to Georgia, who was 12, and Ezra who is 15.

Gabriel Roth has a sick kid, so he cannot join us this week, but we will miss him.

We'll do fine without him, as we sometimes have to do.

We will soldier on.

And today we will be taking listener questions,

one from a

co-parenting with a less than capable X,

and another from a soon-to-be parent

who is worried about how to model good screen time habits

when she herself does not have them.

But first, let's talk about triumphs and fails.

Carvel, what have you got for us this week?

Man, this has been such an incredible thing so for some listeners know that I am in the

midst of a two-week road trip with my two kids we

started what's not a road trip it started as a flight we flew into to DC and then we spent

some time in DC and then today we drove or yesterday we drove to

Pittsburgh then we're gonna spend a few days here then we're driving to

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