Lower Your Expectations Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2015
⏱️ 55 minutes
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In this episode of Slate's parenting podcast, Allison Benedikt and Jessica Winter the state of college tuition with Slate's Jordan Weissmann and the insane world of the Radar family parenting vlog with Slate's Amanda Hess.
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| 1:04.0 | podcast for Thursday, August 13th, |
| 1:06.6 | you lower your expectations edition. |
| 1:08.8 | I'm Allison Benedict and editor at Slate and the mom of Harry 6, Sam 4 and Wally 2. |
| 1:14.0 | And I'm Jessica Winter. I'm also an editor at Slate and I'm the mom of Devon who is 9 months old. |
| 1:19.0 | Dan is off again this week, but that is great because Jessica is here. Hey! |
| 1:24.3 | Hello! Thank you for doing this again. Thank you for having me. So on today's show |
| 1:27.8 | we'll talk to slate senior business correspondent Jordan Weisman about the |
| 1:31.4 | state of college tuition, how people are paying for it or not, |
| 1:34.8 | and what plans out there for fixing it makes sense. |
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