Kidnappers Not Going to Let Me Use My Phone! Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2018
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Carvell Wallace, Rebecca Lavoie, and Gabriel Roth discuss the tyranny of demanding teens charge their phones, beginning of school-blues, balancing time between kids, and an interview with Slate's Rebecca Onion about how parenting groups are making it impossible to leave Facebook, plus triumphs and fails and a question about finding black friends for your black kids, and how to talk to your white friends about race.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.2 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, September |
| 0:14.1 | the 6th. The Kidnapper is not going to let me use my phone edition. I'm Gabriel Roth. I'm an editor |
| 0:19.8 | at Slate, and I'm the father of Eliza, who's 7, and Leo, who is four. I'm Rebecca LaVoy, journalist and podcaster in New Hampshire, and I am mom to Henry, who is 17, Teddy, who is 15, and my stepdaughter, Lily, who is 18. And I'm Carvel Wallace, a writer and podcaster in Oakland, California, and I'm the father to Georgia, who is now |
| 0:37.9 | 13, and Ezra who's 15. |
| 0:40.2 | Happy birthday, Georgia. |
| 0:41.6 | Today on our show, we're going to talk to Slate's Rebecca Onion about her obsession with |
| 0:46.1 | Facebook parenting groups, why they're the only thing that keeps her on that hell site at all. |
| 0:52.0 | And we'll take a question from a listener whose young son is getting teased for the color of his skin. |
| 0:57.0 | Plus, as always, we'll have triumphs and fails. |
| 0:59.2 | We'll have recommendations on Slate Plus. |
| 1:01.4 | We're going to take another question. |
| 1:03.1 | This one is about Native American appropriation at summer camp. |
| 1:08.3 | First, let's do triumphs and fails. Rebecca, do you have a triumph for a fail? |
| 1:14.1 | Fail. Absolute, abject fail. I just, I'm just going to say this is blanket fail. I completely |
| 1:20.2 | suck at the start of the school year in every regard. I always have. And the last couple of years |
| 1:27.1 | I've even planned for it, like I know that I'm terrible at it. I know that I'm always behind the eight ball and like what's going on with my kids and, you know, changing morning routines and, you know, getting into the groove of communicating with them about homework and showers and lunches and all the bullshit that goes with a complete reboot |
| 1:47.4 | that comes the beginning of school year. I'm terrible at it. And this year I even, you know, |
| 1:51.6 | made some accommodations for it like I tried to do last year. I didn't schedule things I normally |
| 1:57.4 | would do. My podcast that I make every week, we go on a bi-weekly schedule |
| 2:02.6 | in the summer and I extended it through mid-September so that even like my production schedule |
| 2:07.3 | would be lighter. I said no to a couple of things at work, work-related events in the evening |
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