Don't Look Free Childcare in the Mouth Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2018
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
This week: Gabriel Roth, Rebecca Lavoie, and Carvell Wallace discuss homework triumphs, a followup on yelling, questions about watching your insecurities play out in your children, and whether to get on grandma's case for letting the kids watch screens.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.1 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, October the 18th, the Don't Look Free Child Care in the Mouth Edition. |
| 0:18.4 | I'm Gabriel Roth. |
| 0:19.5 | I'm the editorial director for podcasts at Slate, and I'm the father of Eliza, who's seven, and Leo, who is four. I'm Rebecca LaVoy. I'm a journalist and podcaster from New Hampshire, and I am mom to Henry, who is 17, Teddy, who is 15 and a half, and my stepdaughter, Lily, who is 18. And I'm Carvel Wallace, a writer and a podcaster in Oakland, California, and I'm the father |
| 0:39.2 | to Georgia who was 13 and Ezra, who was 15. Today on our show, we have a question about what |
| 0:45.4 | happens when you see your own family dynamics playing out amongst your kids. We have another |
| 0:50.2 | about the ever-fraught intersection of the topics of grandparents and screens. |
| 0:55.7 | Plus, as always, we have triumphs, we have fails. |
| 0:58.2 | We'll make recommendations on Slate Plus. |
| 1:00.2 | Carvel has an update on Ezra's ADHD treatment. |
| 1:04.4 | It's going to be a great show. |
| 1:05.9 | Let's go. |
| 1:06.6 | Triumphs, fails. |
| 1:08.0 | Rebecca, you want to go first? |
| 1:10.1 | Yeah, mine is a really small one that if anyone |
| 1:12.7 | out there follows me on Instagram already knows about, because a couple of listeners did post when I |
| 1:16.9 | posted this triumph. And I was like, totally. I don't know what's going on with Teddy, but last |
| 1:23.1 | night he was helping Kevin clean up the kitchen after dinner and then was like, guy, we have to finish doing this. We had to finish doing these dishes because I got to sit down and do my homework. And I was like, what? Is that just code where I want to go back to my computer and play more of whatever video game you're playing? But no, he sat down at the kitchen table and proceeded to do his psychology homework. Granted, it took him all of seven minutes, so who knows if he did a good job or a terrible job, |
| 1:47.9 | but I can tell you he is 15 and a half. |
| 1:50.7 | He's in 10th grade, and this is the first time in the history of my parenting him |
| 1:55.0 | that he has ever proactively sat down to do his homework without prompting, without begging, |
| 2:00.5 | without cajoling, |
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