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Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, August 22nd, the favorite grandma edition.

I'm Rebecca LaVoy, a journalist and host of the podcast, Crime Writers On.

I live in New Hampshire, and my kids are Henry who's 18, Teddy who's 16, and my stepdaughter

Lily, who's 19.

Hi, my name is Jamila Lemieux.

I write the Wednesday edition of the Care and Feeding Parenting column.

I am a communication strategist and mother to Naima, who is six.

And I'm Isaac Butler.

I am a writer and a podcaster. And I am father to Iris, who is almost five.

Today on the show, we've got a question from a parent wondering if she should address her kid's reluctance to go to one of their grandparents' houses,

and a question about whether to give in to the lesser angels of a teenager.

And on Slate Plus, one of us is moving her kid to college this week.

I wonder who that could possibly be.

If you want to hear that conversation, join us on SlatePlus at slate.com slash mom and dad

plus.

To kick off the show today, as always, we've got triumphs and fails.

Jamila, what have you got for us this week?

A triumph or a fail?

Well, I have a triumph.

I am, I guess, the resident co-parenting mom of the crew.

And for the first time, as long as I can remember, my little one's dad and I had to have a kind of, I don't want to say difficult conversation, but we had differing opinions about what school our little one would be going to this year.

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