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Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

Falling Piano Edition

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

Slate Audio

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Gabriel Roth and Carvell Wallace are joined by Marlo Mack of the How to be a Girl podcast to discuss executive functions, when to badger your kids about hand-washing, disclosing sensitive information to soon-to-be-relatives, whether a mom should push her ex-husband to allow their transgender son to start taking hormones, and why it's so taboo to leave a baby alone in an empty house, even for a short time.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:03.0

Welcome to mom and dad are fighting.

0:10.0

Welcome to mom and dad are fighting sl's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, April 19th, The Falling Piano Edition.

0:16.0

I'm Gabriel Roth. I'm an editor at Slate and I'm the father of Eliza, age 7, and Leo, who is 3 and 3 quarters.

0:22.0

My name is Carver Wallace Wallace I'm a writer and

0:24.3

a podcaster out in Oakland, California and I'm the father to Georgia who was 12 and

0:28.1

Ezra who was 15. I'm Marlow Mack. I'm a podcaster in Seattle. I'm the mother of M who is a 10 year old girl.

0:37.0

Marlow is the host of How to Be a Girl. It's a great podcast about life with M her transgender

0:42.1

daughter.

0:42.8

Rebecca will be back next week today on our show.

0:46.4

We've got a question from a mom whose transgender son

0:49.6

wants to start taking testosterone

0:51.6

over his father's objections.

0:53.7

And then we will hear from two parents

0:55.8

who want to know if they can leave their 18-month-old

0:58.6

alone in the house in the middle of the night.

1:01.2

Should be an interesting show.

1:03.0

Plus as always, we will have triumphs and fails.

1:05.1

We'll have recommendations and on Slate Plus Senior Editor Sam Adams will join us to share a rock

1:11.3

and roll parenting triumph.

1:13.0

First up, triumphs and fails, the moment when we share a triumph or a fail from the past week of our parenting life.

1:21.0

Carvel, you want to go first?

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