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Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, March 8th, the Minimalist Healthcape Edition.

I'm Gabriel Roth, an editor at Slate and the father of Eliza, age 7, and Leo, who is three and a half. I'm Rebecca Levoy. I'm a journalist and podcaster in New Hampshire, and I am mom to Henry, who is 16, my stepdaughter, Lily, who is 17, and my son, Teddy, who is 15. And I'm Carver Wallace, a writer and podcaster in Oakland, California, and I am the father to Georgia who is 12,

and Ezra, who is as of this Saturday, 15 years old.

Happy birthday, Ezra.

Today on our show, we'll be talking to psychotherapist Lynn Lyons about anxiety in kids,

in parents, everywhere.

Plus, as always, we'll have questions from listeners, we'll have triumphs and fails.

We'll make recommendations, and On Slate Plus, Slate's Greg'll have questions from listeners. We'll have triumphs and fails. We'll make recommendations.

And on Slate Plus, Slate's Greg Lavley, has an outstanding instance of parental failure and child guilt tripping.

First up, we got a lot of response to last week's episode, especially the segment on chickenpox sharing.

That episode is being discussed in the Slate

Parenting Facebook group, Facebook.com slash groups slash slate parenting. Thanks for your emails.

Thanks for your voicemails. We love getting your questions that way. But if you want to join the

discussion, that's happening in the Facebook group. Just go to Facebook and search for Slate Parenting.

Now, let's talk about triumphs and fails.

Rebecca, we missed you last week.

Triumph for fail.

Oh, thanks.

Well, my triumph is that I took, Kevin and I took, our two kids that were available,

Teddy and Lily, on our vacation last week.

We had a wonderful,

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