Mom And Dad Are Fighting: Everything Is Awesome Edition
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🗓️ 13 February 2014
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Slate's Dan Kois and Allison Benedikt talk to the creators of American Promise, a documentary that follows two black boys from kindergarten through high school graduation, and discuss the Lego Movie.
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| 0:00.0 | The Everything is Awesome is Awesome. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting. |
| 0:10.0 | Slate's Parenting Podcast for February 13, 2014, The Everything is Awesome, Edition. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm Dan Coise. I'm an editor at Slate and I'm the dad of Lyra, who is 8, and Harper who is 6. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm Allison Benedict, also an editor at Slate and I am the mother of |
| 0:25.4 | Harry who is five Sam who is three and Wally who is 11 months. Hey Allison. |
| 0:30.3 | Hey Dan! So today we're gonna talk to Joe Brewster and Michelle Stevenson |
| 0:34.5 | about American Promise, their PBS P. OV documentary following two black |
| 0:39.1 | boys from Brooklyn, their son Idris and his friend Shan from kindergarten through high school graduation. |
| 0:45.0 | What do they learn about the particular challenges the black boys face in the American education system? |
| 0:50.0 | And what lessons can all parents take from Eris and Shan stories. |
| 0:54.1 | In our second segment, we'll discuss the gigantic blockbuster hit The LEGO movie |
| 0:58.5 | and try to interrogate the specific kinds of LEGO play that the movie espouses. |
| 1:04.3 | But first, our parenting fails and triumphs of the week. |
| 1:07.0 | Allison, what have you got? |
| 1:08.4 | Well, after a triumph last week, which hasn't necessarily remained a triumph because it was about having my babysitter do homework with my son which seemed great for a couple of days and then they stopped doing it. |
| 1:20.0 | However, I have a failure, I have a failure. |
| 1:22.7 | I have a double failure. |
| 1:24.4 | I can, I'll do the very abbreviated version, |
| 1:27.1 | which is that I, my kids ran out of, |
| 1:30.4 | they were complaining that the markers were all dried up which of course |
| 1:34.8 | was because they left the caps off the marker so I know stay what I know I gave them permanent markers which I thought they could handle because that was all we |
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