Here’s Steve Instead of Carvell Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2017
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Carvell is sick, so Steve Lickteig joins Gabriel Roth, and Rebecca Lavoie to discuss how to teach empathy in young kids and sibling dynamics, plus triumphs and fails and recommendations.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:08.1 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, May 25th. |
| 0:13.0 | The Here's Steve Instead of Carvel edition. |
| 0:15.7 | I'm Gabriel Roth, an editor at Slate and the dad of Eliza, age six, and Leo, who's almost three. I'm Rebecca Lavoie. I'm a podcaster in New Hampshire, and I am the mom of Henry, who's almost 16. Teddy, who is 14. And I have a stepdaughter, Lily, who is 16. Carvel Wallace is sick and couldn't make it to the studio today. So we have a pinch hitter from the very highest |
| 0:37.6 | ranks of Slate podcasting. Yes, I have come down from my executive suite to grace the microphone |
| 0:44.9 | with my presence. I am Steve Liktai. I'm the executive producer of Slate Podcasts, and I am the |
| 0:50.1 | dad of Hank Six and Gus Three. Steve is going to help us tackle some thorny questions from listeners today, including empathy. |
| 0:58.9 | How young is too young? |
| 1:00.3 | And what to do about a dominant older sibling. |
| 1:04.3 | But first, we've got triumphs and fails. |
| 1:07.2 | Steve, would you like to go first? |
| 1:09.0 | Do you have a triumph or a fail for us today? I have a triumph. We did something recently that I thought we would never do as a family. We started to order one of those meal kits. It's so good and very, very delicious and I'm so happy with it. They're the best. But those meal kids. |
| 1:28.2 | Oh, my God. |
| 1:31.4 | This has been such a revelation. |
| 1:36.9 | But what came out of that other than having these delicious dinners that had actually been fun to do is it has helped our incredibly picky six-year-old, learn to eat better. |
| 1:45.2 | And he has taken such great interest in food in a way that he never has before. |
| 1:49.7 | I mean, he would live off toast if we allowed him to, which we did for a period of time. |
| 1:54.8 | And we have started to cook with him. |
| 1:58.0 | And there's something about those meal kits that really appeal to his personality, |
| 2:03.1 | which is one of great order and following instructions, which is something he really |
| 2:09.0 | loves to do because he puts together Legos and he likes to do the steps. And this has the similar |
| 2:13.6 | sort of step one, step two. And something about that process, being with us in the |
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