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Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting.

Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, May the 3rd, the Four-Wilers and Autub Edition.

I'm Gabriel Roth. I'm an editor at Slate, and I am the father of Eliza, who is seven years old,

and Leo, who is three and three quarters. I'm Rebecca Levoy, a journalist and podcaster in New Hampshire, and I am Mom DeHenry, who is 16, Teddy, who is 15, and my stepdaughter, Lily, who is 17. I'm Carvaux Wallis, a writer and podcaster from Oakland, California, here reporting from K-U-O-W in Seattle, Washington, and I'm the father to Georgia who is 12,

and Ezra, who is 15.

Today on our show, we have a question about young love and sleeping arrangements.

And then we have another one about what to do when your fellow parents are bombarding you at all

hours with text messages asking you to help them with the school play and stupid stuff like that and on slate

plus today carvel is going to share a bonus fail and we're going to discuss it so stay tuned for that

but first it's time for triumphs and fails carvel you weren't here last week triumph or fail yeah

i have a i have a triumph this week in the ongoing saga of Ezra v. ADHD,

and he began treatment and medication this past week, or actually it was two weeks ago,

they gave it to him, and then we stopped after the first day because we all remembered that

when he was very young he had been diagnosed with a slight heart murmur and that's contraindicated

and so we had to stop and then re-up the EKG and the heart monitor stuff and then just turned out

it's fine but although it was cool to see his heart that was so so weird, like my, you know, 5'11, 181 pound baby, seeing his heartbeat.

That was phenomenal.

But in any event, so that was done.

And then we went back on the medication.

And so he began his week, you know, with the medication taking it in the morning and getting through the day.

And so much has improved

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