Designer Genes Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2017
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Gabriel Roth is joined this week by writer Carvell Wallace to discuss tips on how to parent tweens into thoughtful adolescents. Then they chat with Bonnie Rochman, author of The Gene Machine, to discuss the emerging science of birth-related gene selection. Also, a listener call about getting kids out the door in the morning and a Slate Plus daycare dilemma.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:07.7 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, March 16th. |
| 0:12.4 | I'm Gabriel Roth, an editor at Slate, and the father of Leo, who's two and a half, and Eliza, who is six. |
| 0:18.3 | And I'm really excited that today I'm joined by Carvel Wallace, a writer who |
| 0:21.9 | lives in Oakland and who has done great work for MTV News, The New Yorker, and The Guardian, |
| 0:26.9 | among other places. He writes about music, sports, politics, race, and family life, and a lot of other |
| 0:32.5 | things, too. Carvel, thank you for being here. Thanks for having me. I'm so happy to be here. |
| 0:37.3 | Tell us a little bit about your family before we start. |
| 0:40.2 | So I am the father of two kids, Georgia, aged 11, and Ezra, who just turned 14 last week. |
| 0:48.1 | Georgia and Ezra. |
| 0:49.3 | Those are great names. |
| 0:49.9 | Georgia and Ezra. |
| 0:50.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:51.4 | Their mother and I are separated. |
| 0:53.5 | We have been since 2010. We co-parent as well as I think way better than I expected. And we because we both have two kids that we care for and love a lot, we pretty much stay focused on keeping our relationship in a |
| 1:12.7 | functional way so that we can support both of them. |
| 1:15.3 | How, does she also live in Oakland? |
| 1:17.4 | She does live in Oakland. So for many years, I was a stay-at-home dad for the first seven |
| 1:21.8 | years of parenting. And then when we separated, we went to a, well, we had a brief, like, two-day, two-day thing that was a little bit in terms of custody, which we found a little bit manic and the kids didn't love that as much. You mean they would go back and forth every two days? Yeah, it was like Monday, Tuesday, here, Wednesday, Thursday, here, and alternating Friday, Saturday, Sunday. And then we switched to week on, week off, which was a lot better. |
| 1:46.5 | But it's always tricky to have two houses, especially as the kids get older, because |
| 1:49.8 | then it's like, oh, my viola is at dad's house, but my soccer cleats are at mom's house. |
| 1:53.7 | Like, there was that kind of stuff was happening a lot. |
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