Happy Independence Day Edition

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

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Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Carvel Wallace, Rebecca Lavoie, and Gabriel Roth take questions about reconciling disparate parenting styles and how to make space for an introverted kid, plus Triumphs and Fails and recommendations.

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:08.2	Welcome to Mom and Data Fighting, Slate's Parenting podcast for Thursday, July 6th, the Happy Independence Day edition.
0:14.5	I'm Gabriel Roth, an editor at Slate, and the father of Eliza, who is six, and Leo, who is almost three.
0:20.2	And I am Carvel Wallace, a writer in Oakland, and I am the father of Georgia, who is 11, and Ezra, who is 14. I'm Rebecca Levoy, a journalist and podcaster in New Hampshire. I'm the mother of Henry, who is almost 16, Teddy, who is 14, and my stepdaughter, Lily, who is 17. This week we've got a call from a listener who is finding that she and her partner have
0:41.3	different approaches to parenting, wants to know how to resolve that.
0:44.2	And another call from a listener whose kid needs some space from her talkative big brother.
0:50.0	There will be triumphs.
0:51.2	There will be fails.
0:52.0	There will be parenting recommendations.
0:53.9	And in Slate Plus, we will talk about the July 4th holiday and how we are teaching our kids about the complicated thing that is America and how we feel about it. We're going to start with triumphs and fails. Rebecca, did you triumph or did you fail?
1:10.5	I would say this is not my triumph. It belongs solely to the New England Aquarium in Boston,
1:15.4	Massachusetts. So I'm going to give them 100% credit for it. Over the weekend, we had just Teddy.
1:21.1	Henry was invited to the Cape with one of his friends. So we decided because my family always gives me
1:27.1	crap, because I always say that I
1:28.8	don't care for Boston, that like they would show me the Boston that they enjoy. So we went to
1:34.7	Quincy Market and Fannie O'Hall. We walked to the North End and had lunch in an Italian restaurant.
1:40.0	And then we were going to go just for an hour or two, to the New England Aquarium, which is a great aquarium.
1:46.2	That's one thing in Boston I've actually done before when my kids were younger.
1:50.0	And Teddy was about to leave on a trip with his dad to San Francisco, and he was really psyched to see some seals and kind of get in the mood.
1:58.8	He's really into animals.
1:59.7	So we went over the New England
2:01.6	Aquarium. It was like 3 o'clock at this point. And the line was astronomically long,
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