Mom And Dad Are Fighting: The Two Kids in a Hot Car Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2014
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Two Kids |
| 0:02.0 | Explicit Language. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello and welcome to mom and dad are fighting. |
| 0:09.0 | Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, May 22nd, the two kids in a hot car edition. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Allison Benedict, an editor at Slate, and the mother of Harry 5, Sam 3, and Wally 1. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Dan Coise. I'm also an editor at Slate, and I'm the dad of Lyra who is nine and Harper who is six. |
| 0:24.8 | Hey Dan. |
| 0:25.8 | Hey, Alson. Dan is also standing today. |
| 0:27.6 | He's recording the podcast Standing, just making me uncomfortable. |
| 0:30.4 | We're both in the same studio, we're normally not. |
| 0:32.4 | So he's next to me and he's |
| 0:34.0 | standing you should definitely feel a lot more assertiveness coming for me |
| 0:37.4 | today and at the end of this podcast Allison is going to give me a raise on |
| 0:41.4 | today's show we'll talk to writer Paul Tuff about his latest New York Times magazine |
| 0:45.6 | feature on an ingenious new program at the University of Texas, which aims to get more students |
| 0:50.6 | to graduation day. |
| 0:52.3 | And Dan and I will discuss a real life |
| 0:54.0 | ethical dilemma that Dan recently faced and wasn't sure how to handle. Also parenting |
| 0:58.7 | triumphs and fails, recommendations and a listener call on how to handle grandparents who are desperate to spend time with |
| 1:05.0 | your children. |
| 1:06.0 | But before we get to all that, a quick reminder to subscribe either to the Slate Daily Podcast |
| 1:10.6 | feed or to the mom and dad are fighting feed in iTunes or your |
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