Dude Where's My Car Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2017
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Rebecca Lavoie, Gabriel Roth, and Carvell Wallace discuss the youtube abuse controversy surrounding DaddyOFive, together time after a divorce, lost cars in triumphs and fails, and recommendations.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:07.9 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday, May 11th, the |
| 0:13.2 | Dude Where's My Car Edition. I'm Gabriel Roth. I'm an editor at Slate, and I'm the father of Eliza, |
| 0:19.8 | who is six, and Leo, who's three years old. |
| 0:22.7 | If my voice sounds a little different to you, it's because Eliza is sick, and I am staying home with her and am therefore recording myself in my dining room. |
| 0:32.5 | I'm Rebecca Levoy. I'm a podcaster and writer, and I am the mother of Henry, who is 15 and a half, Teddy, who is 14 and a half, and stepmother to Lily, who is 16. |
| 0:43.2 | And I'm Carvel Wallace. I'm a freelance writer out in Oakland, and I'm the father to Georgia, who is 11, and Ezra, who is 14. |
| 0:52.1 | This week, we're going to talk about a really kind of shocking story of parenting pranks gone |
| 0:58.0 | wrong. |
| 0:58.4 | And we'll take a question from a listener about how to handle family time after a divorce. |
| 1:03.6 | Also, we'll have triumphs and fails, recommendations, and more. |
| 1:07.9 | First, a couple of announcements. |
| 1:09.2 | You should like our Facebook page. It's facebook.com |
| 1:12.4 | slash mom and dad are fighting. There are a lot of good and engaged conversations going on there. |
| 1:19.0 | And you should join them. Facebook.com slash mom and dad are fighting. And if you are not yet a member of |
| 1:24.4 | Slate Plus, you should become a member of Slate Plus. You'll get to hear more of this show every week. |
| 1:29.9 | Today we're going to be talking to Slate designer Holly Allen, who has a tricky parenting |
| 1:35.7 | query that she's going to ask for our help with. |
| 1:38.3 | You can get Slate Plus for 90 days, absolutely free. |
| 1:42.5 | That means you can try out like a bunch of different episodes of this show in Slate Plus |
| 1:47.1 | without paying anything by downloading our iOS app in the app store. |
| 1:51.8 | Go to slate.com slash app. |
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