Dads and Dogs Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2016
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
On today's show Allison and Dan discuss putting a family pet asleep and for Father's Day we'll hear stories about dads from Slate staffers.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:11.0 | Hello and welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcasts for June 9th, the Dads and Dogs in addition. |
| 0:18.4 | I'm Dan Coates. I'm an editor at Slate, and I'm the dad of Harper, who is 8, and Lyra, who is 11. And I'm Alison Benedict, also an editor at Slate, and the mom of Harry, who is 7, Sam, who is 5, and Wally, who is 3. Hi, Allison. Hey, Dan. On today's show, we are going to talk about putting a family pet to sleep, and I'm going to try and get through the whole segment without crying. Also, for Father's Day, we are going to talk to Slate staffers about their dads and the things they love best about them. In our Slate Plus segment, Allison and I will tell dad stories of our own. Plus, triumphs and fails, recommendations, and will be joined by Dr. Robin Berman, author of permission to parent to answer a listener call about whether it's okay to be scary as a parent. |
| 1:01.8 | 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. |
| 1:10.1 | But also, 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? |
| 1:23.3 | A Facebook live video of Dan dispensing soda from his home soda machine. |
| 1:28.4 | Is that what we call it? |
| 1:29.3 | What is the thing? |
| 1:29.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:30.4 | That's my soda. |
| 1:31.2 | Viral. |
| 1:32.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:33.0 | A regular place for you to ask your fellow mom and dad are fighting listeners for parenting advice. |
| 1:37.9 | Just like pictures of everyone's cute kids. |
| 1:40.7 | Tell us, go to Facebook.com slash mom and dad are fighting like us. |
| 1:45.0 | And then I'm going to start a thread as soon as we are done recording the show where |
| 1:48.3 | you can put in your comments ideas for the page. |
| 1:52.6 | All right. |
| 1:53.2 | That's a great notion. |
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