Mom And Dad Are Fighting: The Magic Beer Fridge Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2014
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Slate's Dan Kois and guest host Emily Yoffe (Slate's Dear Prudence columnist) discuss preparing your kids for peer pressure, talking with girls about their first period, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | The Following podcast |
| 0:01.0 | podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:03.0 | Welcome to mom and dad are fighting, |
| 0:09.0 | Slate Parenting Podcast for Thursday, July 3rd, The Magic Beer Fridge Edition. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Jan Coase. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm the Adam Harper who is six and Lira who is nine. |
| 0:19.4 | Allison, my usual co-host, is on vacation this week with her family somewhere lovely. I'm sure so I'm |
| 0:25.1 | joined today in our DC studio by our very special guest host. Please introduce yourself. |
| 0:30.1 | I'm Emily Yaffi. write Slates Dear Prudence Column, and I am the mother of an 18-year-old girl who |
| 0:37.4 | asked that I not name her, which must say something about my parenting skills. |
| 0:43.0 | She actually did say, they asked you to do a parenting podcast? |
| 0:48.0 | She sounds like a little prudence indeed, yes. |
| 0:52.0 | So that was a wise move, young Yoffi child. |
| 0:56.0 | So good job. |
| 0:56.6 | Welcome, Emily, I'm so happy to have you here. |
| 0:58.9 | I'm taking advantage of this opportunity |
| 1:01.2 | by clearing the decks here in this podcast. We are not going to have an interview this week. |
| 1:05.0 | I am seizing the chance to talk to dear prudence about |
| 1:09.0 | parenting issues that she has faced already |
| 1:11.0 | and that I as the parent of younger children have not faced yet. |
| 1:14.7 | So today we're going to talk about difficult conversations, how best to prepare kids for the |
| 1:19.0 | peer pressure that they might face in the middle and high school years. And we'll also talk about an adorable menstruation related ad that is sweeping, sweeping |
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