Falling Piano Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1K 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.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.3 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, April 19th, |
| 0:14.8 | The Falling Piano Edition. |
| 0:16.3 | I'm Gabriel Roth. |
| 0:17.3 | I'm an editor at Slate, and I'm the father of Eliza, age seven, and Leo, who is three and three quarters. My name is Carval Wallace. I'm a writer and podcaster out in Oakland, California, and I'm the father to Georgia who is 12, and Ezra who is 15. I'm Marlo Mack. I'm a podcaster in Seattle. I'm the mother of M, who is a 10-year-old girl. Marlowe is the host of How to Be a Girl. |
| 0:38.7 | It's a great podcast about Life with M, her transgender daughter. |
| 0:42.9 | Rebecca will be back next week today on our show. |
| 0:46.2 | We've got a question from a mom whose transgender son wants to start taking testosterone over his father's objections. |
| 0:53.6 | And then we will hear from two parents who want to know if they can leave their 18-month-old |
| 0:58.5 | alone in the house in the middle of the night. |
| 1:01.2 | Should be an interesting show. |
| 1:02.8 | Plus, as always, we will have triumphs and fails. |
| 1:05.0 | We'll have recommendations. |
| 1:06.4 | And on Slate Plus, senior editor Sam Adams will join us to share a rock and roll parenting triumph. |
| 1:13.6 | First up, triumphs and fails, the moment when we share a triumph or a fail from the past |
| 1:19.6 | week of our parenting life. Carvel, you want to go first? So, yeah, I have a triumph, |
| 1:24.5 | which is that I kind of teased this last time. The listeners to the show will know that over a spring break, I have a triumph, which is that I kind of teased this last time. |
| 1:41.3 | The listeners to the show will know that over spring break, I took my son on a road trip to Oregon to see two plays in the Ashland, Oregon Shakespeare Festival. |
| 1:44.8 | We saw Othello and Henry Five, and he really liked Othello, but he was bored to tears by Henry 5, which is not a great play, but it was a great production. |
| 1:50.1 | Anyway, so it was like, it was supposed to like this father-son bonding trip, and like he's |
| 1:55.1 | 15, and we're definitely like at, you know, there's some like, there's some headbutting in our |
| 2:00.6 | relationship. Like, there's definitely what's happening. It's some head budding in our relationship like there's |
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