Dads and Dogs Edition

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

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Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2016

⏱️ 53 minutes

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.2	Hello and welcome to mom and dad are fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for June 9th,
0:16.0	to dads and dogs in addition.
0:18.0	I'm Dan Coates, I'm an editor at Slate
0:20.0	and I'm a dad of Harper, who is 8 and Lyra who is 11.
0:24.0	And I'm Allison Benedict, also an editor at Slate, and the mom of Harry, who is 7,
0:29.2	Sam who is 5, and Wally who is 3. Hi Allison.
0:33.0	Hey Dan.
0:34.0	On today's show we are going to talk about putting a family pet to sleep
0:38.0	and I'm going to try and get through the whole segment without crying.
0:41.0	Also for Father's Day we are going to talk to Slate Staffers about their dads and
0:44.4	the things they love best about them.
0:46.4	In our Slate Plus segment, Allison and I will tell Dad stories of our own.
0:50.2	Plus, Triumph and Fales, Recommendations, and we'll be joined by Dr Robin Berman,
0:54.7	author of permission to Parent to answer a listener call about whether it's okay to be scary
1:00.4	as a parent. Allison, tell our listeners about our Facebook page.
1:05.0	So every episode we ask you to like our Facebook page and I still want you to do that, but also
1:11.2	those of you who already frequent the page or those of you who are liking it just now,
1:15.0	I would like you to go to our Facebook page and tell us what we can do to make it better.
1:20.0	Would you like to see more parenting stories from around the web on there?
1:23.2	A Facebook live video of Dan dispensing soda from his home soda machine?
1:28.3	Is that what we call it?
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