Mom And Dad Are Fighting: The Indigo Child Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2014
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Slate's Allison Benedikt and Dan Kois discuss changing standards of childhood independence and talk to Slate TV Critic Willa Paskin about Bravo's new show "Extreme Guide to Parenting".
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| 0:00.0 | The Following podcast |
| 0:01.2 | podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:03.1 | Hello and welcome to mom and dad are fighting. |
| 0:09.8 | Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday, August 14th, |
| 0:13.0 | The Indigo Child Edition. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Allison Benedict, an editor at Slate, |
| 0:17.2 | and the mom of Harry, five, Sam 3, and Wally 1. |
| 0:21.7 | I'm Dan Coise. I'm also an editor at at Slate I'm the dad of Lyra who is nine and |
| 0:25.4 | Harper who turns seven tomorrow. |
| 0:27.3 | Ah I feel like it's always a birthday in your family. |
| 0:30.8 | It's like literally twice a year. |
| 0:33.7 | I can't keep track. |
| 0:34.9 | On today's show we'll talk about what we let our kids do on their own and when we let them do |
| 0:39.1 | it. |
| 0:40.1 | And then Willopaskin, Slate's TV critic will join us to discuss the new Bravo Reality Show Extreme Guide to Parenting. |
| 0:47.0 | Also Parenting Triumph and Fails, Recommendations, and a listener call about making Wimpy daughters less |
| 0:52.3 | whimpy. |
| 0:53.6 | First, a couple of reminders. |
| 0:55.3 | Please subscribe to mom and dad are fighting |
| 0:57.2 | in iTunes or your favorite podcast app |
| 0:59.7 | and keep spreading the word. |
| 1:01.4 | And please, if you haven't't yet sign up for Slate Plus |
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