Mom And Dad Are Fighting: The Slate Staff Call-In Extravaganza Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2014
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Slate's Dan Kois answers listeners' parenting questions with Hanna Rosin, Katy Waldman, Jordan Weissmann, Amanda Hess, Julia Turner and Troy Patterson.
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| 0:00.0 | The Slait's Parenting contains Explicit Language. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are fighting. |
| 0:07.0 | Slait's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, July 31st, |
| 0:12.0 | The Slate Staff Call-In Answering Extreme. podcast for Thursday, July 31st, the Slate Staff Colin |
| 0:14.2 | answering Extravagansa Edition. |
| 0:16.6 | I'm Dan Coise. |
| 0:17.4 | I'm the Dad of Harper, who is six, and Lyra who is nine. |
| 0:20.6 | Today we're answering a smorgas board of listener call in questions about divorce, |
| 0:24.0 | inappropriate books, last names, and being naked in Germany. |
| 0:27.0 | But first, parenting triumphs and fails. |
| 0:30.0 | Allison? |
| 0:31.0 | Okay, my triumphs this week, I have a triumph. It's that I am not in the studio. I'm on vacation |
| 0:35.4 | having another wonderful vacation with my family. Have a good show. Oh, right. |
| 0:40.3 | Well, I've got to fail this week. |
| 0:43.0 | Lira really loves to read, as listeners may know from previous episodes of the show. |
| 0:47.0 | We go to the library, like every couple of weeks we take out like 40 books, and then, you know, every once in a while one of them disappears and then we have to pay for it, which is not a big deal. But this month, like eight books somehow got lost somewhere. And we had a bill from the Arlington County Library for a hundred bucks. And I kept procrastinating because I thought well these |
| 1:04.0 | books have got to be somewhere and we looked all over the place we looked at their grandparents |
| 1:09.0 | house and in both cars we couldn't find them and then we got a letter from a collection |
| 1:12.2 | agency about these library books like like a collection agency is writing me because of Geronimo Stilton so I just paid it |
| 1:18.7 | But I failed to get Lyra to appreciate the seriousness of the situation because the amount to her was so |
| 1:24.8 | cartoonishly large. |
| 1:26.6 | I can't get $100 from Lira. |
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