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Welcome to mom and dad are fighting.

Welcome to mom and dad are fighting.

Slates parenting podcast for Thursday

June 14th, the Easy Baby Envy Edition. I'm Gabriel Roth, an editor at Slate and

the father of Eliza who's seven and Leo who is three and seven eighths. I'm Rebecca Laveoy. I'm a journalist and

podcaster in New Hampshire and I am mom to Henry who is 16, Teddy who is 15,

and my stepdaughter Lily who is 17. And I'm Carva Wallace, a writer and podcaster in Oakland, California,

and I'm the father to Georgia, who is 12, and Ezra who is 15.

Today on our show, we have a question about downsizing after a divorce and another

about parent envy plus as always we will have triumphs and fails we'll have

recommendations and on slate plus today we're going to take an extra question. Time now for Triumph and

Fail. Carvel missed you last week. How was it Triumph or Fail?

I overall this has been a week of relative triumphs both the kids we've entered into summer and

both of them are you know doing what they do in summer that is to say that Ezra is like trying to avoid everything and Georgia is taking everything on head on but to Georgia's credit she I think I mentioned before that she initiated this process whereby she enters into this stem or I guess steam it is now science technology education Arts and Math Camp at Mills College. We got

that set up for her a couple of weeks ago and she started this week and has just been super excited about it and has like kind of

motivated herself to get there every day involves getting up super early in

the morning it involves getting all the way out to campus or getting to her school from which they take a chartered bus out to the campus and then involves her getting back on her own and she just found out yesterday that all the kids who complete the camp get $5,000 scholarship,

which do they decide to go to that college.

And so she called me, yeah.

And so as soon as she got out of camp yesterday, she called me up and was like,

Dad, I got a college scholarship and I was like what already? And yet I also was like,

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