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Hello and welcome to mom and dad are fighting,

Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, July 17th, the Ethan Hawk and a minivan edition.

I'm Allison Benedict, an editor at Slate, and the mom of Harry 5, Sam 3, and Wally 1.

And I'm Dan Coise.

I'm the new editor-in-chief of Slain and I'm the dad of Lyra who is nine and Harper who is six.

I'm not really.

But Julia Turner is, it's very exciting.

If you're a listener and not a reader, go check it out. We have a brand new

editor. She's great. On today's show we'll talk to writer director

Richard Link later about his new movie Boyhood and then to writer, not director, Rebecca Onion about her attempt to craft a pre-pregnancy

contract with her husband.

Also parenting triumphs and fails, recommendations, and a slate reader email, not a call, but an email, on how political to get when talking

to young kids about gay parents.

But before we get to all that, I'm going to get all of our reminders and nags out quickly

because I'm sick of this taking a long time. One, subscribe to mom and dad

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Go to slate.com slash plus to sign up. Okay that's it. Good job.

Dan on to triumphs and fails. What do you guys?

All right. I've got a fail this week. So it's not a huge fail but it was just sort of a frustration that we had

which is that we went to Wisconsin over July 4th weekend to visit my family and you know sometimes you have these trips and at the end

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