Empathy Redux Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2017
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Rebecca Lavoie, Gabriel Roth, and Carvell Wallace return to a poorly-answered listener question about empathy with UCLA post-doctoral researcher Nicole McDonald. Plus recommendations, divorcing uncles, and Triumphs and Fails.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:08.3 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting. |
| 0:10.1 | Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday, June 8th, the Empathy Redux Edition. |
| 0:14.8 | I'm Gabriel Roth, an editor at Slate Magazine and the father of Eliza H6 and Leo, who is almost three. |
| 0:21.1 | I'm Rebecca Levoy in New Hampshire. I'm a journalist and podcaster, and I am the mother of |
| 0:25.6 | Henry, who is 15 and a half. Teddy, who is 14, and I have a beautiful stepdaughter, Lily, |
| 0:30.9 | who turned 17 in a couple of days. And my name is Carvel Wallace. I'm a freelance writer based |
| 0:36.2 | out in Oakland, California, and I have two kids, Georgia, who is 11, and Ezra, who is 14. |
| 0:42.7 | A couple weeks ago, we took a question from a listener, and we answered it unanimously with great and, frankly, unjustified confidence. |
| 0:51.0 | This week, we will be revisiting that question with some help from somebody who actually knows what they're talking about. |
| 0:56.6 | Then we will take another listener question about a nine-year-old who is losing her beloved uncle in a divorce. |
| 1:02.5 | Maybe we will have learned some humility in time for that one. |
| 1:05.8 | And of course, we will also have recommendations. |
| 1:08.0 | And then on Slate Plus, Slate writer Isaac Butler will share how a poorly timed metaphor screwed up his family's entire morning. |
| 1:16.1 | But first, triumphs and fails. |
| 1:19.2 | Rebecca, you're up. |
| 1:20.4 | Well, I have a triumph this week. |
| 1:22.3 | And I have to say every time Carvel talks about the relationship that he is maintaining with the mother of his children and his ex, |
| 1:30.8 | I feel like you, Carvel, may have been raised on a different planet from the rest of us who've ever been divorced and gone through it, |
| 1:41.2 | because it should be noted that it is typically not as thoughtful |
| 1:46.7 | and zen and peaceful as the one that you describe on this podcast, the relationship between |
| 1:53.7 | you and your ex and those co-parenting roles. However, it has been, let's see, I got divorced in 2008 my my husband got divorced in 2009 it has been |
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