Mom and Dad Are Fighting: This Job Sucks Edition

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

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Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode, Allison, Carvell, and Gabe answer questions from listeners about what to think of their unaccompanied teenage kids and what’s reasonable to expect from an 11 year old who struggles with writing. Plus: parenting triumphs and fails, recommendations, and more. And on Slate Plus this week: peeing in public, yay or nay? Recommendations: Allison recommends The Boxcar Children Mysteries & Jesse Kelley tweet: kids robotics competition Gabe recommends Ruffles All-dressed Chips (From Canada)• Carvell recommends @animalsdoingthings on Instagram Join us on Facebook and email us at momanddad@slate.com to tell us what you thought of today’s show and give us ideas for what we should talk about in future episodes. Got questions that you’d like us to answer? Call and leave us a message at 424-255-7833. Podcast produced by Max Jacobs. Listen to Mom and Dad Are Fighting on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Stitcher, or Google Play. This episode is brought to you by Blinkist. Start your free trial today at blinkist.com/momanddad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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.
0:10.0	Welcome to mom and dad are fighting sl's Parenting Podcast for Thursday January 24th, the This Job Sucks Edition.
0:16.4	I'm Gabriel Roth. I am the editorial director of Slate Podcasts and I'm the father of Leo who is four years old and of Eliza who is eight.
0:23.4	My name is Carvo Wallace and I am a writer-podcaster in open California and I am the father to
0:28.1	Georgia who is 12 and Ezra who is 15.
0:31.3	And I'm Allison Benedict.
0:32.5	I'm executive editor of Slate and I am the mom of Harry who is 10, Sam who is 8, and Wally
0:38.2	who's 5.
0:39.2	Rebecca Lervoy is out this week.
0:40.9	Today on our show we've got a question about teenagers without
0:43.4	parental supervision and we've got another about an 11-year-old who's having
0:47.4	trouble with his writing. Plus as always we'll have Triumph and Sales
0:51.0	we'll make recommendations and on Slate Plus we're going to take a third question. This one is about Pee.
0:57.0	Let's start with Triumph and Fails. Allison, welcome to the show. Good to have you back.
1:01.0	Do you have a Triumph or a fail for us?
1:03.0	Nice.
1:05.0	My triumph is that I overcame the judgment of my parenting peers
1:10.0	to take Sam who just turned eight to see dear Evan Hansen for his birthday.
1:14.5	I don't know if you guys know the story of Dear
1:17.2	Evan Hansen.
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