Mom and Dad Are Fighting Ep. 1: Don't Test My Kids

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

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Kids & Family, Society & Culture, Parenting

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2013

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In the debut episode of Slate's new parenting podcast, Allison Benedikt and Dan Kois discuss the small but growing number of parents who opt their children out of standardized tests, and the new Disney movie Frozen.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mom and Dad are fighting.
0:04.4	Slate's Parenting Podcast, The Don't Test My Kids episode for Thursday, December 5th, 2013.
0:12.4	This is our inaugural episode of Mom and Dad are. on and Harper who is 6. I'm Allison Benedict, also an editor at Slate,
0:25.0	the mother of Wally, who is 8 months,
0:27.0	Sam who is 3, and Harry who is 5.
0:30.0	Hi, Allison.
0:31.0	Hi Dan.
0:32.0	I'm in New York, and Dan's in DC.
0:33.6	And today we are going to talk, first of all,
0:35.5	with Robert Kolker of New York magazine
0:38.3	about his recent article about whether there really
0:40.0	is an opt-out revolution going on,
0:42.4	not with women in the workplace but in our schools
0:45.3	with parents opting their kids out of standardized tests. And then we'll talk about the new
0:50.1	Disney animated movie frozen and whether's portrayal of Sisters Rings True.
0:55.0	Plus, we'll do recommendations.
0:56.3	But first, we have our parenting fail or parenting triumph of the week, and I'll go a person.
1:01.2	This week I have a parenting triumph Allison I'm
1:03.4	happy to no way yes I know it's rare but it happened so my triumph is that I let my
1:09.2	daughter Lara stay up until midnight last night to read the last Harry Potter book.
1:13.2	Wait on a school night.
1:14.7	Yes.
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