Mom And Dad Are Fighting: Live And Let Lice Edition

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Kids & Family, Society & Culture, Parenting

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🗓️ 27 March 2014

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Slate's Allison Benedikt and Dan Kois discuss why you should not help your kids with their homework with journalist Dana Goldstein, and whether or not head lice are really that big of a deal.

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.0	Hello and welcome to mom and dad are fighting
0:10.0	Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, March 27th, The Live and Let Lice edition. L'
0:13.9	The Live and Let Lice Edition.
0:15.0	I'm Allison Benedict and Editor at Slate and the mother of Harry Five, Sam Three,
0:20.2	and Wally One.
0:21.3	I'm Dan Coise. I'm also an editor at Slate and I am the dad of
0:25.1	Lyra who is eight and Harper who is six. Hey Dan. Hey. Wally took his first step
0:30.9	yesterday but I'm I missed it I missed it I missed it according
0:34.2	well congratulations on almost being a good enough mother to see your son's first
0:38.2	step okay on today show we'll talk to education reporter Dana Goldstein
0:42.4	about new research that shows that a
0:44.3	parents involvement in school does not actually help that parents kid do better.
0:49.4	And then we'll discuss Lice.
0:52.4	Lice. I can't just say Lice. Lice, Lice. Lice.
0:53.0	Lice.
0:54.0	Specifically, the new Lice policy that some schools are adopting, which is basically
0:59.0	kids with Lice can stay in school.
1:01.0	Also, parenting triumphs and fails, recommendations, and a great listener call. But before
1:06.6	we get to all that, a quick reminder, sorry to nag you. A quick reminder to subscribe
1:11.3	either to the daily podcast feed or to the mom and dad
1:15.2	are fighting feed in iTunes or your favorite podcast app.
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