Mom And Dad Are Fighting: The Grand Canyon Heat Stroke Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2014
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Slate's Allison Benedikt and Dan Kois discuss paternity leave with the New York Times' Michael Roston, and talk about the pros and cons of adventurous parenting with Slate's Amanda Hess.
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| 0:00.0 | The Grand Canyon Heat Stroke Edition. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm Dan Coise. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, |
| 0:09.0 | Slace Parenting Podcast, The Grand Canyon Heat Stroke Edition. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Dan Coise. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm the dad of Harper, who is six, and Lyra, who is eight. |
| 0:18.0 | And I'm Allison Benedict. |
| 0:19.0 | I am the mom of Harry who's five, Sam who's three, and Wally who's one. |
| 0:24.0 | We're both editors at Slate and we're happy to be here. |
| 0:26.0 | Hi, Allison. |
| 0:27.0 | Hey! |
| 0:28.0 | So on today's episode, we're going to talk to Michael Roston of the New York Times. |
| 0:31.0 | He solicited advice from readers about how to have a great |
| 0:33.8 | paternity leave and then he went off on paternity leave. So he's calling in to give us an |
| 0:38.2 | update on how it's going and the state of paternity leave today and then we'll |
| 0:41.7 | discuss adventure parenting in light of the |
| 0:44.0 | Rebel Heart Rescue 900 nautical miles off the coast of Mexico. Our parents |
| 0:48.2 | crazy to put their kids in dangerous situations no matter how enriching those |
| 0:51.7 | experiences might be. |
| 0:53.0 | We'll talk to Slatesa own Amanda Hess, who is a one-time adventure kid about her childhood |
| 0:58.4 | stuck at the bottom of the Grand Canyon and how she looks back on it now. |
| 1:01.4 | And how she survived, how did she survive? Plus parenting |
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