Dan Kois Returns Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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On this week’s episode: The hosts answers listener questions about what to do with your kid that refuses everything, even the fun stuff, and another about what it even means to have siblings. We also welcome Dan Kois back to the show. And as usual, we share our triumphs and fails and offer up some recommendations. On Slate Plus, the hosts share their thoughts on Mary Jane.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.8 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, June 6th, 2019. |
| 0:12.7 | The Dan Cois Returns Edition. |
| 0:15.5 | I'm Rebecca LaVoy. I'm a journalist and podcaster living in New Hampshire. |
| 0:19.0 | And my kids are Henry, who is 17, Teddy who is 16, and my stepdaughter Lily, who is almost 19. And I'm Dan Cois. I'm an editor and writer at Slate. And I'm the author of How to Be a Family, which comes out in September. I'm the dad of Lyra, who is now 14, and Harper, who is 11. And I'm back, baby. Let's talk about that. You are back, like, for real, right? I am back for real. I am now joining Rebecca as a weekly co-host of Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Amazing Parenting Podcast. Well, you just, like, I just want to take a second before we preview the show. Like, just tell me a little bit about your family. Can you just do that real quick? Can you catch me up? Because I was not a podcaster on this show when you were on this show. And the only way that I know you is from your guest hosting stance when I've been on the show. So can you just orient me and maybe the audience who sort of came in in the post-Dan years, just like, what is your family like? |
| 1:12.5 | What's our deal? |
| 1:14.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:15.2 | We live in Arlington, Virginia, which is a suburb of D.C. |
| 1:19.4 | My wife's name is Alia. |
| 1:21.0 | She's an attorney. |
| 1:21.9 | I work at Slate. |
| 1:23.5 | My kids are both in middle school, six and eighth grade, two girls. |
| 1:27.4 | They spent many years being the subjects of triumphs and fails, mostly fails that I would then spend as triumphs for this podcast way back when I lost it with Allison Benedict many years ago. |
| 1:41.3 | And the most notable thing about our family is that we spent a year traveling around the |
| 1:47.9 | world for the purposes of this book that I have written, which is coming out in September, |
| 1:51.9 | which in some ways has given my kids a completely different view of their suburban life. |
| 1:57.6 | And in some ways, they have completely pushed out of their memories because it was so |
| 2:01.5 | traumatic that they wish never to think or speak of it again. Well, now that we have the background, |
| 2:07.8 | we can talk about what's coming up today on the show. We've got a question about what the deal is |
| 2:11.8 | with siblings anyway and a question about what to do with a kid who refuses to go anywhere, |
| 2:19.5 | even when the where is somewhere super fun. |
| 2:22.4 | Plus, triumphs, fails, and recommendations. |
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