Happiest Podcast on Earth Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2017
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Gabriel Roth, Rebecca Lavoie, and Carvell Wallace discuss how to talk to your kids about recent events in Charlottesville Virginia, and whether smartphones are "destroying a generation," with Lisa Guernsey and Janelle Krupicka. Plus triumphs, fails, and recommendations.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:09.1 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, August 17th, the |
| 0:14.3 | happiest podcast on Earth edition. I'm Gabriel Roth. I'm an editor at Slate, and I'm the father |
| 0:19.1 | of Eliza, who is six years old, and Leo, who is three. I'm Rebecca LaVoy. I'm an editor at Slate, and I'm the father of Eliza, who is six years old, and Leo, who is three. I'm Rebecca Levoy. I'm a podcaster in New Hampshire. I am the mother of Henry, who is 16, Teddy, who is 14, and a stepdaughter, Lily, who is 17. And I'm Carval Wallace. I'm a writer and editor based out in Oakland, and I'm the father of Georgia who is 11 and Ezra, who is 14. |
| 0:40.5 | This week we're going to be talking about smartphones. |
| 0:42.6 | Are they killing the happiness of a generation of young people? |
| 0:46.3 | Also, there will be triumphs. |
| 0:47.7 | There will be fails. |
| 0:48.5 | We will have recommendations. |
| 0:50.1 | And on Slate Plus, I am going to ask Carvel and Rebecca for some advice with perhaps the most annoying parenting question I could possibly ask. |
| 1:00.5 | If you want to find out what that is, sign up for Slate Plus. |
| 1:04.3 | Can't wait. |
| 1:05.7 | It's been another one of those weeks when it feels like everything happening in the world and in the news, particularly in American politics, is disturbing and frightening for adults to deal with, let alone for us to figure out how to help our kids deal with them. |
| 1:23.6 | It's been a week with violent protests by white supremacists and a president who responds in a manner that is disturbingly sympathetic to those white supremacists. |
| 1:38.3 | I will say we were talking about this a little bit before we started rolling. |
| 1:43.0 | I should say my kids are young enough to be relatively insulated from the news, |
| 1:49.6 | and I certainly haven't, like, pushed it into their field of vision because the whole idea is frightening to me of starting a conversation with them about that. |
| 2:02.2 | I wonder what you guys have done with much older kids who presumably are aware of what's been going on. |
| 2:06.9 | Yeah, I mean, for me, it's, it's, it's the timing of this is interesting because actually both my kids are away right now. |
| 2:12.8 | One is it sleepaway camp, the final sleepaway camp of the summer for her. |
| 2:16.8 | And then my son is in Florida, actually, |
| 2:20.9 | visiting his maternal grandparents after his extended stay with his paternal grandfather a couple |
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