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Hello and welcome to mom and dad are fighting slates parenting

podcast for Thursday May 12th. the Is Grit Good Edition.

I'm Allison Benedict, an editor at Slate and the Mom of Harry 7, Sam 5, and Wally 3.

I'm Dan Coise.

I'm also an editor at Slate and I am the dad of

Lyra who is 11 and Harper who is 8. Hey Dan. Hello. On today's show we

will talk to Slate columnist Dan Anber about the new book Grit and assess its author Angela Duckworth's

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