Cold Turkey Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2018
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Carvell Wallace, Rebecca Lavoie, and Gabriel Roth discuss YELLING! and other subjects including kids mocking the weight of their teachers, the privilege conversation, stolen cell phones, and making sick days fun.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, October 11th, the Cold Turkey Edition. |
| 0:15.2 | I'm Gabriel Roth. I'm an editor at Slate, and I'm the father of Leo, age four, and Eliza, who is seven. |
| 0:20.6 | I'm Rebecca LaVoy. I'm a journalist and podcaster in New Hampshire, age four, and Eliza, who is seven. I'm Rebecca Lavoie. |
| 0:21.5 | I'm a journalist and podcaster in New Hampshire. And I am mom to Henry, who is 17, Teddy, who is 15 and a half, and a stepdaughter, Lily, who is 18. And I'm Carvel Wallace, a writer and podcaster in Oakland, California. And I'm the father to Georgia, who was 13, and Ezra, who was 15 Today on our show, we've got a question about yelling! |
| 0:40.4 | Sorry, we've got a question about yelling. |
| 0:42.5 | And another about a kid who made a mean joke about his teacher's weight. |
| 0:47.3 | Plus, as always, we'll have triumphs and fails. |
| 0:49.4 | We'll have recommendations. |
| 0:50.6 | And on Slate Plus, I've got a question and hopefully Carville and Rebecca can give me some advice. |
| 0:56.2 | First up, though, it's triumphs and fails. Rebecca, your turn. Triumph or fail? |
| 1:01.0 | I've got a triumph. And it's, I don't know, this is one of those ones where I had to really think about whether or not it could be considered a triumph. |
| 1:09.4 | But it felt like it had a good outcome, and it felt like it was an opportunity for conversation. |
| 1:13.2 | And that is that I have figured out that it is really important to talk about privilege all the |
| 1:19.4 | time with my white privileged sons, not because they behave in a way that makes me worry |
| 1:26.4 | that they're not aware of their privilege specifically, |
| 1:29.3 | but they also kind of do, and it's kind of, the world is kind of built for them. And I am constantly |
| 1:35.8 | finding myself, I think especially in the wake of the Kavanaugh hearings, just like wanting |
| 1:41.3 | to start these conversations all the time. And I, the other day, Henry had his first college interview this week. |
| 1:47.9 | And it was one of those alumni interviews. |
| 1:49.5 | And he got an email from one of the colleges he's going to be applying to. |
| 1:53.5 | And they said, oh, it's alumni interview time. |
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