Mean Girls and Lazy Guys Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2016
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
On today's show Dan Kois and Allison Benedikt talk with Rosalind Wiseman about the new edition about her classic guide to girls' friendships and discuss the division of household labor.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:11.2 | Hello and welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate Parenting Podcast from August 4, 2016, the Mean Girls and Lazy Guys Edition. |
| 0:20.3 | I'm Dan Coice. |
| 0:21.1 | I'm the dad of Harper, who is 8, and Lyra, who is 11, and I'm an editor at Slate. |
| 0:25.9 | I'm Alison Benedict, also an editor at Slate, and the mom of Harry 7, Sam 5, and Wally 3. |
| 0:32.8 | Hello, Allison. |
| 0:33.9 | Hi, hi, hi, hi. |
| 0:34.8 | So, on this episode, we will talk to Rosalind Wiseman about the brand new edition of her |
| 0:40.4 | classic guide to girls' friendships, Queen Bees and wannabes. |
| 0:44.4 | And we'll discuss a fulcrum for both conflict and sometimes sexism in many two-parent |
| 0:50.0 | homes, division of household labor. |
| 0:53.0 | Plus, triumphs and fails, recommendations. |
| 0:55.4 | And in our plus segment, Slate Designer, and Brand New Virginian, Natalie Matthews Ramo, |
| 1:01.2 | will share a triumph or fail about her move. |
| 1:04.7 | And Allison is going to grill me about my family's big upcoming move, a crazy life |
| 1:10.8 | turn that means, among other things, |
| 1:13.7 | that Allison needs to get a new co-host for this podcast. |
| 1:16.7 | Okay, last episode, which was now four weeks ago, we skipped an episode. Thank you all for |
| 1:21.6 | understanding. I asked you guys to please help us get to 5,000 likes on our Facebook page by the |
| 1:27.3 | end of the summer. |
| 1:28.6 | And we are now at 5,176 likes at the time of this recording. |
| 1:34.7 | And it's only the first week of August. |
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