Disdaingate Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2014
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Listen to Slate's parenting podcast where we discuss stay-at-home parenting and unpack Dan Kois' complicated feelings about it.
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| 0:23.4 | slash mom and dad. The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:28.2 | Hello and |
| 0:33.7 | welcome to mom and dad are fighting Slate's parenting |
| 0:35.8 | podcast for Thursday, November 20th, |
| 0:38.3 | The Distane Gate Edition. |
| 0:40.1 | I'm Allison Benedict, an editor at Slate and the mom of Harry, 6, Sam 3, and Wally 1. |
| 0:45.4 | I'm Dan Coise. I'm also an editor at Slate and I am the dad of Lyra, who is 9 and Harper |
| 0:51.3 | who is 7. |
| 0:52.3 | Hey Dan, welcome back. |
| 0:53.0 | Thanks. |
| 0:54.0 | Anything happened while I was gone? |
| 0:56.0 | On today's show, Distane Gate. |
| 0:58.0 | I will grill Dan on a comment he made a few episodes back about having secret disdain for stay-at-home parents. |
| 1:04.0 | We'll talk to a listener about her decision to stay home and we'll be joined by Gretchen Livingston, |
| 1:08.9 | a Pew researcher who has studied the demographics of who stays home and why. |
| 1:12.4 | Plus parenting triumphs and why. |
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