Mom And Dad Are Fighting: The City vs. Suburbs Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2014
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Listen to Slate's parenting podcast about losing the Asperger's diagnosis, and the great debate: Where is it better to raise kids, in the city or the suburbs?
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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 Parenting Podcast for Thursday February 27th, the Suburbs versus City Parental Death Match Edition. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Allison Benedict, an editor at Slate and the mother of Harry 5, Sam 3, and Wally a week away from one. |
| 0:25.0 | And I'm Dan Coise. |
| 0:26.2 | I'm also an editor, Slate. |
| 0:27.4 | I'm the dad of Lyra, who is 8, and Harper who is 6. |
| 0:31.3 | Hey Dan. |
| 0:32.0 | Hey, so on today's show, we're going to talk to our colleague Hannah Rosen who recently |
| 0:36.6 | wrote a piece in the Atlantic about coming to terms with her son's Asperger's diagnosis |
| 0:41.2 | just four months before the American Psychiatric Association |
| 0:44.3 | ditched the label and then city versus suburbs where is it better to raise |
| 0:48.8 | kids Dan and I will duke it out unless Dan you can't hack it and you need to leave the studio and drive your |
| 0:54.4 | station wagon to an olive garden. But first, our parenting fails or triumphs for the week. |
| 1:00.8 | Oh actually, but even before that, a very important announcement. |
| 1:04.1 | Oh, yes. |
| 1:05.1 | Dan, get free refills while I'm making this announcement. |
| 1:07.2 | Okay. |
| 1:08.2 | Some of you are listening to this podcast because you subscribe to the wonderful Double X Gap Fest. |
| 1:12.9 | And a few months ago, our parenting show just |
| 1:14.7 | started appearing in your iTunes feed. |
| 1:16.8 | Well, no more. |
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