Grandpa Rules Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Rebecca Lavoie, Carvell Wallace, and Gabriel Roth discuss their annoyingly triumphant week, how to raise your kids outside of the influence of toxic masculinity, and what to do about a doting grandpa. Plus more in Triumphs and Fails and Recommendations.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.1 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, November 30th, the Grandpa Rules Edition. |
| 0:16.2 | I'm Gabriel Roth, an editor at Slate Magazine, and the father of Leo, who is three, and Eliza, who is now, as of this week's episode, seven years old. Wow. Can you believe it? Where does the time go? Et cetera, et cetera. I'm Rebecca LaVoy. I'm a journalist and podcaster in New Hampshire, and I'm Mom DeHenry, who is 16, Teddy, who is 14, and my stepdaughter, Lily, who is 17. And I am Carvel Wallace, a writer and podcaster in |
| 0:39.5 | Oakland, California, and I am the father to Georgia who is 12 and Ezra who is 14. Today on our show, |
| 0:46.6 | we have a question from a listener who's worried about raising sons in a culture suffused with |
| 0:51.0 | toxic masculinity and another who cannot get her son's grandfather to stop spoiling him. |
| 0:56.5 | Plus, as always, we'll have triumphs and fails. |
| 0:59.4 | We'll have recommendations. |
| 1:00.9 | And on Slate Plus this week, Rebecca is going to extend our discussion of grandparental prerogative into the realm of step parenting. |
| 1:10.2 | How do your parents treat their step grandchildren? |
| 1:15.7 | And how do you manage that relationship? |
| 1:19.2 | We'll hear all that in our Slate Plus segment. |
| 1:22.6 | But first time now for triumphs and fails. |
| 1:26.0 | Carvel, do you have a triumph or a fail? |
| 1:28.6 | I have a triumph. |
| 1:31.4 | Both my kids are doing great, which is something that I just feel like I should say, because they really are, and I'm really impressed with both of them. |
| 1:38.8 | And there's also a lot of transitions happening in terms of just everyone's getting older. |
| 1:42.7 | You know, it's at that phase where every day you can see that everyone is getting one step closer to adulthood and independence. |
| 1:48.6 | And it's kind of wonderful. |
| 1:50.7 | So the latest iteration of that is that Joe started a new job this first week. |
| 1:56.5 | This week, Monday was her first day. |
| 1:57.9 | She's very excited about it because it's within walking distance of where she lives. She can now walk from her house around the lake to her job. Then at the end of the day, she can walk from her job around the lake, back to her house. And it's beautiful. And she's been nervous about it because before she was working for a company based on the East Coast, and so she was working at home, which meant that she had a lot more |
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