How to Be a Family Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2019
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
On this special midweek bonus episode, Dan Kois shares the first chapter of the audiobook of How to Be a Family, plus Dan is joined by retired MADAF all-stars Allison Benedikt and Gabe Roth to talk about the trip around the world, the lessons Dan and his family learned, and all the fails along the way.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a special Tuesday bonus episode of Mom and Dad are Fighting. |
| 0:11.5 | I'm Dan Coice, I'm one of the hosts of Mom and Dad are Fighting. |
| 0:14.5 | You may have heard me talking about my upcoming book, How to Be a Family, on the podcast. |
| 0:19.4 | You may have even thought, geez, this guy is |
| 0:22.4 | really shameless about plugging that book. Well, I'll show you shameless on this very special |
| 0:28.4 | episode of Mom and Dad are fighting for September 17th, 2019, the How to Be a Family Edition. |
| 0:34.9 | The book is in stores today. It's a chronicle of the year our family spent |
| 0:38.5 | traveling around the world to shake ourselves out of our East Coast parenting bubble. While we |
| 0:43.5 | were gone, I was almost entirely off the podcast. So for longtime listeners and for those new ones |
| 0:49.3 | wondering what this trip was all about, I've got a little extra podcast for you this week. We'll have our regular episode this coming Thursday, same as always, but I'm also offering a bonus. |
| 0:59.2 | Today we've got the beginning of the audiobook, courtesy of Hachette Audio, free on this podcast. |
| 1:04.6 | That excerpt, which will start in a moment, is about 33 minutes long. |
| 1:08.3 | When it's done, I'm very excited to welcome back beloved mom and dad are |
| 1:13.1 | fighting hosts emeritus, Allison Benedict and Gabriel Roth, to talk about the book and ask me |
| 1:19.4 | as many pointed questions as they want. So, audiobook excerpt, then discussion with Allison and |
| 1:25.9 | Gabe, please join us and enjoy a little taste of How to Be a Family in stores now. |
| 1:36.3 | Hachette Audio presents How to Be a Family, the year I dragged my kids around the world to find a new way to be together. |
| 1:44.4 | Written and read by Dan Coice. |
| 1:53.3 | Our own nostalgia is already here. |
| 1:56.4 | The first of a series of autumn moods that will pile up, layer on layer, |
| 2:04.0 | as she leaves her various younger selves behind. |
| 2:07.2 | Brian Hall, Madeline's World. |
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