Deathbed Sandwich Generation Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2017
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Gabriel Roth, Rebecca Lavoie, and Carvell Wallace discuss coping with a dying parent as a parent, plus charades, laid-back husbands, and listening to your kids in our weekly triumphs and fails and recommendations.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:06.3 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, April 13th, the Deathbed Sandwich Generation Edition. |
| 0:14.1 | I'm Gabriel Roth, Slate Senior Editor, and I'm here with Carvel Wallace from Oakland, California. |
| 0:20.1 | Hi, Carvel. |
| 0:20.7 | Hey, how's it going? Good. And Rebecca LaVoy from the Wild from Oakland, California. Hi, Carvel. Hey, how's it going? |
| 0:37.5 | Good. And Rebecca LaVoe from the Wilds of New Hampshire. Hi, Rebecca. Hey, Gabe. How you doing? Good. This week, we're going to talk about being a parent while your own parents are approaching the end of their lives. We're also going to do triumphs and fails and recommendations. First, a couple of announcements in Slate Plus. |
| 0:40.7 | Slate editor, John Swansberg, is going to come in with a parenting fail-slash-conundrum involving Sesame Street. |
| 0:47.1 | And if you're not already a Slate Plus member, then you should sign up for Slate Plus. |
| 0:51.2 | You can do it through slate.com slash mom and dad plus, or you can get |
| 0:55.9 | three free months of Slate Plus by using Slate's iOS app. Just download the Slate app in the app store |
| 1:02.7 | or go to slate.com slash app. And you'll get three free months, 90 days of Slate Plus, including |
| 1:08.9 | this bonus segment of today's podcast, absolutely free. |
| 1:12.2 | If you're not already on our Facebook page, you should be on our Facebook page. It's at |
| 1:15.9 | facebook.com slash mom and dad are fighting. If you have any questions that you'd like us to |
| 1:21.1 | address on the show, call and leave us a message at 424-255-7833. That's 424-25-7-8-33. |
| 1:30.1 | Okay, that's it for announcements. |
| 1:33.4 | Let's talk about our triumphs and our fails. |
| 1:38.2 | Rebecca, have you triumphed or failed recently? |
| 1:41.0 | Failed. Big time. |
| 1:42.4 | I'm sorry to hear that. |
| 1:43.8 | I mean, in a way, I'm glad for |
| 1:45.0 | entertainment purposes. What failure have you committed recently? Well, I'm really looking for |
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