Fish and Candy
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: The hosts answer listener questions about a mom who wants to know what to do about a sort of stepson and another about a kid who’s hanging out with a kid that counts calories. We also welcome Amy Scott as this week’s special host. As usual, we share our triumphs and fails and offer up some recommendations. Amy brings Ask-A-Teacher to Slate Plus.
Recommendations:
Rebecca recommends the YouTube series, Star Wars by the Numbers.
Dan recommends day camp as the ultimate summer solution for working vacations.
Amy has two recommendations: The Hamilton soundtrack and buying your kids’ puzzles at the thrift store.
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Podcast produced by Jess Jupiter.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.8 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, July 11th, the Fish and Candy Edition. |
| 0:12.4 | I'm Dan Coit. I'm an editor at Slate. I'm the author of the forthcoming book How to Be a Family. |
| 0:17.3 | And I'm the dad of Lyra, who is 14, and Harper, who's 11. |
| 0:21.9 | I'm Rebecca Levoy. |
| 0:22.9 | I'm a journalist and podcaster in New Hampshire, and I am mom to Henry, who is almost 18, |
| 0:28.3 | Teddy, who is 16 and a half, and my stepdaughter, Lily, who is 19. |
| 0:32.3 | And joining us today in beautiful Durham, North Carolina, on the American Tobacco Campus |
| 0:36.9 | is our today's special guest host. |
| 0:38.9 | Please introduce yourself. |
| 0:39.9 | I'm Amy Scott. |
| 0:40.8 | I teach eighth grade English and contribute to a teacher's home. |
| 0:45.2 | And I'm a single mom by choice of Arlo and Patrick, who are four and three quarters. |
| 0:49.7 | They're quite adorable. |
| 0:51.9 | Hello and welcome, Amy. |
| 0:52.9 | Thank you so much for joining us. |
| 0:54.0 | Today on the show, we have advice for a woman with a new college-age stepson, kind of. |
| 0:59.7 | Plus a question about fitness-obsessed friends. |
| 1:03.0 | Plus, triumphs and fails and recommendations, as ever. |
| 1:06.5 | Let's start with triumphs and fails. |
| 1:07.9 | Rebecca, do you have a triumph for us today or a fail? |
| 1:12.1 | I've got a triumph for my son Teddy. He passed his driver's test this week. I'm following up on the... |
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