Eighth Grade Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2018
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Allison Benedikt, Carvell Wallace, and Rebecca Lavoie discuss taxidermied animals, being without your kids, summer camp compromises, a listener question about whether to take a young child on a trip to Africa, and an interview with Bo Burnham, writer and director of the movie "Eighth Grade" and Betsy Bozdech, Executive Editor at Common Sense Media to talk about the film.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.8 | Welcome to Mom and Daeder Fighting, Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday, August 9th, the 8th grade edition. |
| 0:16.5 | I'm Allison Benedict, an editor at Slate, and the mom of Wally 5, Sam 7, and Harry 9. I'm Rebecca Lavoie, a journalist and podcaster in New Hampshire, and I am mom to Henry, who is 17, Teddy, who is 15, and my stepdaughter Lily, who is 18. And I'm Carval Wallace, a writer and podcaster in Oakland, California, and I'm the father to Ezra, who is 15, and Georgia, who is 12. So Gabe is on vacation, and I'm filling father to Ezra who is 15 in Georgia who was 12. So Gabe is on vacation and I'm filling in. |
| 0:41.0 | Today on the show, this is great. |
| 0:42.8 | We're talking to Bo Burnham, the writer-director of the new movie Eighth Grade, along with Betsy |
| 0:48.1 | Bosdak, the executive editor of Common Sense Media, who has been recommending that middle |
| 0:53.7 | schoolers see the film despite |
| 0:55.3 | its R rating. |
| 0:56.7 | Then we'll be answering a listener question about whether or not to take a 10-year-old on a big |
| 1:01.2 | trip overseas. |
| 1:03.3 | And in Slate Plus, Slate Culture Editor and Child Free Person in the World, Forrest Wickman is going to |
| 1:08.9 | join us to ask us what he says is the only |
| 1:11.4 | parenting question he has ever had. I'll leave that as a cliffhanger. It is similar to why, but |
| 1:19.4 | slightly, we will word it differently. All of that plus recommendations and triumphs and fails. |
| 1:26.4 | So let's do triumphs and fails. |
| 1:29.4 | Carvel, what do you have? |
| 1:32.3 | It's weird because I haven't really seen my kids in a super long time because I had to go back east to report in this story and interview this guy. |
| 1:41.7 | And then before I got back, my kids left |
| 1:44.7 | back east to elsewhere back east to go see their grandparents. So we actually like passed each other |
| 1:49.7 | midair and I haven't seen them for a long time. And, uh, it's been a lot of texting. So I don't know, |
| 1:56.2 | it feels sad because I really miss them. And whenever I don't see my kids for a few days, I noticed, |
| 2:02.4 | like, I had this moment yesterday where I was walking through the aisle at, like, a grocery store. And I was like, I feel like so empty and useless. And what is the point of being? Like, I was like, these are really, and then I was like, oh, I haven't seen my kids. That's why. I always get like weirdly disoriented when I'm not, when I don't, when I'm not parenting. |
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