The following podcast contains explicit language.

Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, May 17th,

the Great Grandma Name Debate Edition.

I'm Carville Wallace, the writer and podcaster in the Bay Area, and I'm the father

of Ezra, who is 15, and Georgia who is 12. I'm Rebecca Lavoie, and I am a journalist and podcaster

in New Hampshire, and I am mom to Henry who is 16, Teddy, who is 15, and my stepdaughter, Lily,

who is 17. And I'm Isaac Butler. I am a writer and podcast here in Brooklyn, New York, and dad to Iris, who is three and a half.

Gabe is out sick today, so he's not going to be with us this week.

But stepping in is Slate Podcasting All-Star Isaac Butler.

Author of the World Only Spins Forward, The Ascentcent of angels in America and hosted the brand

new podcast, lend me your ears, which is about Shakespeare and politics.

Isaac, once you gave us a breakfast fail in one of our plus segments, but this is your mom

and dad are fighting co-host debut, so welcome to the show.

Thank you so much.

Today we'll be discussing listener questions about the frustrations of finding other parents to

commiserate with, and we are going to wade into the great grandma name debate that is jumping

off on our Facebook page, and we're going to handle that here today.

But first, triumphs and fails. Rebecca, what do you have this week? A triumph

for a fail?

I've got a triumph, and I feel like Carvel, I owe a lot of this to you insofar as that

I used to admire you for this kind of thing all the time and be like, how is this possible?

And now I finally can relate. And I think I thought it was possible because of you. So we had, my husband and I, had dinner

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