College Sticker Shock Edition

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🗓️ 28 January 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode: Dan, Jamilah, and Elizabeth talk with New York Times columnist Ron Lieber about his new book, The Price You Pay for College. He’ll explain why college costs so much, what parents and students should be asking when picking a school, and how to deal with not being able to afford your kid’s dream school.

Then the hosts answer a question from a mom who is struggling with resentment and regret over having a kid at all.

In Slate Plus: Slate’s Rebecca Onion joins to discuss the politicization of kids’ safety and helicopter parenting in the Trump era. Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on MADAF each week, and no ads. Sign up now to listen and support our work.

Recommendations:

Elizabeth recommends LuminAID Solar Lanterns.

Jamilah recommends Highlights Magazine.

Dan recommends actually filling out a One Line a Day journal. You can also text one line a day to Qeepsake.

Also Mentioned:

I Used to Worry About Being an Overprotective Parent. Then Came the Trump Era by Rebecca Onion, which is from Slate’s package: What We Learned.

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Podcast produced by Rosemary Belson.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is for parents. Maybe not for kids.
0:05.9	Welcome to mom and dad are fighting. Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday, January 28th,
0:10.6	the college sticker shock edition. I'm Dan Cois. I'm a writer at Slate. I'm the author of the book
0:15.2	How to Be a Family. I'm the dad of Lyra, who's 15, and Harper who's 13, and we live in Arlington, Virginia.
0:22.0	I'm Jamila Lemieux.
0:37.7	I'm a writer, contributor to Slate's care and feeding parenting column, and mom to Naima, who is seven, and we live in Los Angeles, California. I'm Elizabeth New Camp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch goose. I'm the mom to three littles, Henry who's eight, Oliver,
0:43.3	who's six, and Teddy who's four, and we live in Navar, Florida. On today's show, we will be talking with the New York Times's Ron Lieber about his new book, The Price You Pay for College. No matter
0:49.3	how old your kids are or how terrifyingly close college is, we're going to want to hear this discussion.
0:55.1	After that, we'll be answering a question from a mom who is struggling with resentment and
0:58.8	regret over having a kid at all.
1:01.0	She's in a dark place.
1:02.0	We're going to try and talk her off the ledge.
1:03.9	On our Slate Plus bonus segment, we'll be joined by Slate's very own Rebecca Onion to talk
1:08.1	about the politicization of kids' safety and helicopter parenting in the post-Trump era, based on her very good essay published in Slate this week.
1:16.7	As always, we have triumphs and fails.
1:18.7	We got recommendations.
1:20.4	Let's start with triumph or fails.
1:21.7	Jamila, how about you?
1:22.7	Do you have a triumph or a fail for us this week?
1:24.3	Well, I have a fail.
1:26.8	It is an update on a story that you all may be aware of,
1:30.8	my co-host and producer Rosemary. So let's rewind three Tuesdays ago now. Naima, my daughter,
	...

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