Do You Like Pina Coladas? Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Gabriel Roth, Carvell Wallace, and Rebecca Lavoie are joined by Katherine Goldstein to talk about her brand new podcast The Double Shift, a show about working mothers. They also discuss a follow up email from last week's discussion about telling your kids about their biological parentage, plus as always: triumphs and fails and recommendations.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:09.3 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcasts for Thursday, February 21st, the If You Like Pina Coladas edition. |
| 0:16.6 | I'm Gabriel Roth. I'm the editorial director of Slate Podcast, and I'm the father of Leo who is is four years old, and Eliza, who is eight. I'm Rebecca Levoy. I'm a journalist and podcaster in New Hampshire, and I am mom to Henry, who is 17, my stepdaughter Lily, who is 18, and my son, Teddy, who is 16. And I'm Carvel Wallace, a writer and podcaster in Oakland, California, and I'm the fatherhood, Georgia, who is 13, and Ezra who is 15. |
| 0:40.5 | Today on our show, we're going to be joined by longtime friend of mom and dad are fighting Catherine Goldstein. |
| 0:45.5 | She's going to talk about her new podcast, The Double Shift. |
| 0:49.6 | As always, we're going to share triumphs and fails. |
| 0:51.8 | We're going to make recommendations on Slate Plus. |
| 0:54.4 | We're going to be talking about the hills that you would be willing or not willing to die on to uphold your principles as a parent. |
| 1:02.6 | Let's start with triumphs and fails. Carvel, you want to go first, triumph or a fail? |
| 1:08.4 | Yeah, I'm going to go with a triumph today, which is that Georgia, we were driving |
| 1:13.3 | the school this morning, and Georgia started telling me this story about this thing that |
| 1:17.0 | happened to her in class. |
| 1:18.4 | And the story was that they were in their history class and they were talking about slave |
| 1:22.0 | rebellion. |
| 1:22.3 | They were talking about Nat Turner. |
| 1:23.6 | And then the teacher decided to introduce this sort of mock debate where you had to debate whether or not |
| 1:28.2 | Nat Turner was a freedom fighter or a crazy person and which I thought was really interesting. |
| 1:35.0 | This has to do with the fact that he, in addition to like the slave rebellion had a lot of crazy |
| 1:39.6 | stuff going on, including the murder of a baby. And so the kids had a lot of feelings about that. So everyone was like, well, I mean, you have to fight for freedom, but you have to do it in this particular way and you don't want to make the white people mad and you don't want to. And George's class is, I'd say, maybe about half white, half children of color. I think her school's like quarter black and mixed |
| 2:01.6 | and then there's white kids. |
| 2:02.6 | And I think it's kind of a, it's a pretty fairly diverse classroom. |
| 2:06.6 | So they were having this debate, but Georgia said that she was listening to everyone and was |
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