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Hello and welcome to Mom and dad are fighting Slate's parenting podcast for April 28th, 2016, the Mothers and Medlars edition.

I'm Dan Cois. I'm an editor at Slate and the dad of Harper, who is eight, and Lyra who turns 11 on Friday.

Happy almost birthday, Lyra. I'm Allison Benedict, also an editor at Slate and the mom of Harry 7, Sam 5, and Wally 3. Hi, Allison. Happy Almost Mother's Day. Thank you. We're in the same room today in Slate's Brooklyn offices. It's very, very exciting. On today's show, we are celebrating moms of all stripes.

We're talking to Susan Sarandon about her new movie about a mom and her adult daughter, the meddler.

We're getting great mom and kid stories from slate writers and editors.

And we've got a listener call from a stepmom with questions about her relationship with her stepson.

Plus, triumphs, fails, recommendations, everything you want to hear from us. Allison, I believe first you have some important announcements. As a mom, you have the

floor. Yes, uh, you should listen to me as a mom. As you guys know, we'd like you to like us on

Facebook. Facebook.com slash mom and dad are fighting. It is super easy to do. It makes a big difference

for the show but

i will say no more because i feel that dan has gotten to the point of desperation in his requests

and i don't want to um i want to distance myself from that it's really embarrassing honestly

yeah but i did want to suggest if you wanted to plug us on a facebook mom's group or Facebook parents group or Facebook neighborhood group that you belong to, I wouldn't discourage you from doing that. No, or really any Facebook group, like a Facebook group of Doctor Who fans or just whatever Facebook group you belong to. Right. Let them know about the show. Facebook.com slash mom and dad are fighting. All right, triumphs and fails. First off, before we start, I want to thank everyone who posted on that Facebook page or emailed us about our fails last episode. So many people had really amazing ideas for how I could deal with our sock surplus, from making a game out of it with the kids, to paying Lyra to to sort them to just throwing them all away and just

buying everyone black socks and not worrying about it anymore. What did you do? I haven't done anything.

The socks are still in a bin on top of my dryer. Our neighbor Ashley even texted me begging to

just come over and do all the socks for us because it drove her so crazy. So now I like have incentive

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