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Hello and welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for March 31st, 2016, the Defending Easter edition.

I'm Dan Cois.

I'm an editor at Slate and the dad of Harper

who's eight and Lyra who's 10. I'm Allison Benedict. I'm also an editor at Slate and the mother

of Harry 7, Sam 5, and Wally 3. Hey, Allison. Hi. On today's episode, we'll talk to a real live

principal about what to do when parents have a problem with their kids' principal or other school administrators.

Then we'll be joined by a very special, very furry guest to defend the worst family holiday, Easter.

Plus, triumphs and fails, a listener call from a mom at the end of her tether and more.

And in our Slate Plus segment, we'll do a bonus triumph or fail with Slate's brand new director of technology, Greg LaValley. But first, my recommendation last episode was for the movie Little Giants, starring Rick Moranus. And in discussing the movie, Dan, as he tends to do, remarked incorrectly that soon after making that movie. Flippily.

Right.

Rick Moranis gave up acting and went to live his life as a non-celebrity civilian.

What we didn't know, but what like so many of you did, an insane amount of you knew,

is that Rick Moranus actually stopped acting in 97, three years after Little Giants was released, to raise his children when his wife died.

So thank you guys for alerting us in correcting the record.

It was one of the more surprising batches of emails we've gotten since starting the show, wouldn't you say, Dan?

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