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Welcome to mom and dad are fighting.

Welcome to mom and dad are fighting.

Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday July 26th,

The Guy in a Gorilla Suit Edition.

I'm Gabriel Roth, an editor at Slate and the Father of Eliza, who is 7, and Leo who is 4.

And I'm Carvel Wallace, a writer and podcaster in Oakland, California, and I am the father to Georgia who was 12 and Ezra who was 15.

And hello, I am today's guest host Dana Stevens. I'm the movie critic at Slate and also a co-host of the Slate Culture Gabfest.

I have one child, a daughter 12 and her name is Pearl.

Rebecca Lervoy will be back next week. We are thrilled to have Dana on the show with us today.

We've got a question from a caller whose ex-husband is not showing up for their kid.

And we've got another about a five-year-old who won't stop beating herself up.

As always we will have triumphs and fails. We'll have recommendations and on Slate Plus

today Dana is going to tell us the best movies to watch with your kid.

If you want to hear that segment, don't miss out.

Join slateplus, slate.com

slash mom and dad.

Plus, let's go straight into Triumphs and fails.

Dana as our guest, would you like to go first?

All right, well, first of all, Kave, I want to establish that I'm vastly underqualified

to be on this podcast.

I mean, when I look at the difficult questions that people send in and these real paradoxes about. on this

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