The following podcast contains explicit language.

Welcome to Mom and Data Fighting Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday, November 22nd,

the Nerfgun fantasy edition.

I'm Gabriel Roth.

I'm the editorial director of Slate Podcasts, and I'm the father of Leo, who is four and

Eliza, who is just about to turn eight.

And I'm Carvo Wallace, a writer in podcaster in Oakland, California,

and I'm the father to Georgia, who is 13 in Ezra who is 15.

Rebecca Lervoy is out this week, but we have a special guest.

Hey, I'm Mary Harris.

I host a new slate show called What Next, and I am the mom of Leo, who is 10, that's right, another

Leo, and Stella who is four.

Today on our show we have a question about whether you should let your kids play with

Nerf guns when you live in the shadow of the Parkland shooting.

Plus as always we'll have have Triumph and Fails.

We'll make recommendations on Slate Plus,

you will hear from one of our children.

I'm not going to tell you which yet.

Let's start with triumphs and fails.

Carvel, do you have a triumph for a fail?

I have a triumph, which is that Ezra has decided to, he's taken the challenges of, since he knows he's not doing well in school

and he's decided that he's not going to be, he's not going to emerge into a complete

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