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Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, June 7th, the Make Daycare Great Again edition.

I'm Gabriel Roth. I'm an editor at Slate, and I'm the father of Eliza, who's seven years old, and Leo, who is three and three quarters. I'm Rebecca LaVoy. I'm a journalist and podcaster. I live in New Hampshire, and I am mom to Henry, who is 16, Teddy, who is 15, and my stepdaughter, Lily, who is 17. I am Sam Adams. I am a senior editor at Slate. I live in Philadelphia, and I'm the father of

Sophia, who is nine years old. Carvel Wallace is out today. He'll be back next week today on our

show. We have a question about whether to entrust your child to a daycare provider who is also

a Trump supporter. And another about what to do when your stepkids are taking liberties with your fancy beauty products.

Plus, as always, we'll have triumphs, we'll have fails, we'll have recommendations.

And on Slate Plus today, a very special guest appearance from my younger and more athletic brother, Zach,

who has quite a parenting triumph to share. Don't miss it.

Let's start with triumphs and fails. Rebecca, you want to go first? Triumph or fail?

Yep. It's a huge triumph, and I'll keep it simple. My stepdaughter Lily graduated from high school this week. We went to her graduation.

And, man, it was really something. She went, I should say, to a very big for New Hampshire,

Catholic high school in Nashua, which is about 45 minutes from where we live. I didn't

really like interact a lot with her high school experience just because, you know, we live up here

and my kids go to school where we live and she goes to school down there. And so I got to go to

her high school graduation and it was a lot of pomp and a lot of circumstance, literally. And it was

beautiful. And she is a high school graduate. And it is one of those things that you imagine will

happen to your kids someday, you know, graduating high school, going to prom, going to

college, getting married, all the things you imagine that they may do. This is one of those things.

And it's really something. It was very, very moving. My husband cried like a baby. And it was

really wonderful. So, yeah, high school graduate in the family. We're very excited about that.

That's great. Congratulations. I have a fail. I also have an end of school year phenomenon, but mine is a fail. If you remember, I talked about this a while ago, but Eliza wanted to take guitar lessons. She wanted to learn guitar. And so we signed her up for guitar lessons. And we told her, you know, you got if you want you want to do this then you can do it but you have to commit to practicing and you have to like make a commitment to it and you're not always going to want to practice but you got to do it anyway because that's the only way you get good at anything and when you watch a show and there's somebody playing guitar you're only seeing them looking cool because they can play, but they only get to do that because they practice lots and lots and lots of times. And so this is a chance for you to do that too. And she's like, yes, I am committed to this. I want to do this. I am going to do this. And of course, like from day one, she didn't want to practice. Of course, she didn't. Nobody likes practicing guitar.

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