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Hi, this is Mom and Dad are Fighting.

Slate's Parenting Podcast for October 27th, the Moms With Her edition.

I'm Dan Coise.

I'm the dad of Harper, who's nine, and Lyra, who's 11, and I'm an editor at Slate. I'm Alison Benedict. I'm also an editor at Slate, and I'm the mom of Harry, who is now eight. Happy birthday, Harry. Happy birthday, Harry. Yay. Sam 5 and Wally 3. Hi. Hi, Allison. All right. So on today's show, we will talk about the American Academy of Pediatrics new recommendations

on screen time with screens expert Lisa Guernsey.

Then we will talk to a cavalcade of moms of girls about how they're feeling about the

coming Hillary Clinton presidency and how they're talking about it with their daughters.

Plus, recommendations, triumphs and fails, a listener call from a divorced parent trying to figure out how far she can move away.

And in our plus segment, we'll talk to LV Anderson of Slate's normal blog about what is the normal age to stop trick-or-treating. But before we get to the show, Alison, do you have your children's Halloween costumes yet this year? Yes, I do. One of them may be changing. Are they all ninjas again? No. No. Oh, wow. Good memory. Oh, no, it's not a good memory. You went and listened to our old Halloween show to decide if we should do another Halloween show. Don't give away my secrets. Yeah, actually, are you asking me because you want to know what they're going to be? You're dying to know. I do I don't know what they're going to be. While he's going to be a skeleton, just one of those kind of like unitarred skeleton costumes. Sam now wants to be Harry Potter, but when we were at the store, wanted to be some kind of like commando, which I really did not want to let him do, actually, but gave in and got that costume. So if he really ultimately wants to change to Harry Potter, I'd feel okay about that. And then the big thing in our house, because the big thing is always about Harry in our house is Harry wanted to be a poop emoji. And John and I were kind of like, eh, I don't know. Anyway, he prevailed. He's a smiling poop emoji. I'm not sure if we should let him wear the poop emoji costume to his school parade. What do you think? You should absolutely let him wear that poop emoji to his school parade. He will be a huge hit.

But you don't think that will be, like, frowned upon at the school?

100% of those teachers use the poop emojis every day when sending text about your children.

So I think it'll be fun.

I mean, everybody poops.

Right.

That's true.

How about your kids?

Lyra is going to be an artist with a beret and a smock and a bad attitude, I assume.

And Harper wants to be a devil, which I'm very excited about.

She just got a little devil costume.

And she promises that though she'll be dressed as a devil, she will still actually behave well on Halloween.

And you will dress up? I know you dress up. Just like John every year, I will be dressing up as a middle-aged dad. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. No, I don't have any good. I was thinking, you know, David S. Pumpkins, but then all those suits sold out. Okay, damn, will you post pictures of your family's Halloween get up on our Facebook page? Oh, definitely. Great. I want to see Harry Potter, commando Harry Potter on our Facebook Facebook channel. I vow to do the same. If you want to see these photos, well, I guess if you want to see these photos, you actually don't have to like our Facebook page. You can just go to our Facebook page. But come on, like it when you're there. Facebook.com slash mom and dad are fighting.

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