Mom And Dad Are Fighting: I Am The Standard Edition

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Kids & Family, Society & Culture, Parenting

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🗓️ 30 January 2014

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Slate's Dan Kois and Allison Benedikt discuss gap years before college and are joined by author Jennifer Senior to discuss "All Joy and No Fun", her new book about modern parenting.

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0:00.0	The I'm the Late's parenting podcast for Thursday, January 30th,
0:13.4	the I'm the Standard Edition.
0:15.6	I'm Allison Benedict, an editor at Slate
0:17.6	and the mother of Harry Five, Sam Three,
0:20.5	and Wally Ten Months.
0:22.3	And I'm Dan Coise.
0:23.0	I'm also an editor at Slate and I'm the dad of Lyra, who is 8, almost 9, and Harper who is 6.
0:30.0	Hi Dan.
0:31.0	Hey.
0:32.0	On today's show, we're going to talk to Jennifer Senior about her new book All Joy and No Fun,
0:36.2	The Paradox of Modern Parenthood.
0:38.8	And then, Gap Years, should parents encourage their kids to take a year off between high school and college?
0:44.5	But first, our parenting fails or triumphs for the week.
0:47.2	Dan, you go first.
0:48.5	I have a triumph.
0:49.5	All right.
0:50.5	Yeah.
0:51.5	So this weekend, this past weekend we had no plans like no plans at all. We have reached
0:56.7	That time in winter where we have just completely run out of things to do to the point that
1:00.9	Alia on Sunday actually did Shrinky Dinks with the kids.
1:05.0	God bless her.
1:06.0	Yeah.
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