Look Who's Back Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2018
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Carvell Wallace and Gabriel Roth are joined by Allison Benedikt to discuss Ruth Graham's article “My Life Is a Waking Nightmare” about the world of online parenting advice, answer a question about a grandparent who doesn't visit often enough, plus "Triumphs and Fails" and recommendations.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:09.9 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting. |
| 0:11.5 | Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday, January 11th. |
| 0:14.5 | The Look Who's Back Edition. |
| 0:16.2 | I'm Gabriel Roth. |
| 0:17.1 | I'm an editor at Slate. |
| 0:18.4 | My kids are Eliza, who's seven years old, and Leo, who's three and a half. |
| 0:22.3 | And I'm Carvel Wallace, a writer and a podcaster in Oakland, California, and I'm the father to Georgia, who's 12, and Ezra, who is 14. |
| 0:30.2 | Rebecca LaVoy is out this week, so we are being joined by a familiar voice. |
| 0:35.2 | Hi, I'm Allison Benedict, an editor at Slate, and the mom of Harry, who's nine, Sam, who is |
| 0:41.0 | almost seven, next week seven, so I'll say seven, and Wally, who's four. |
| 0:47.1 | Glad to have you back, Allison. I thought you were blanking on one of your kids' ages, |
| 0:50.8 | but you weren't, you were just making sure to get it right. |
| 0:53.5 | I thought I was the only ones who did that. |
| 0:54.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:55.6 | Nicely done. |
| 0:56.4 | Thank you. |
| 0:57.6 | This week on our show, Slate writer Ruth Graham wrote a column four years ago asking, |
| 1:03.4 | why do parents and parenting blogs make parenting sound so terrible? |
| 1:07.6 | And then she had a kid. |
| 1:08.9 | She's going to join us to revisit that piece today. |
| 1:12.3 | Plus, we have a question from a listener whose mother-in-law refuses to visit. This is apparently a |
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