Pollen Prank Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: The hosts answer a listener question about what actually matters when parenting your kid. We also say farewell to Gabe and Carvell. And as usual, we share our triumphs and fails and offer up some recommendations. On Slate Plus, the hosts recap their favorite moments and lessons on the show.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.7 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting Slate's Parenting Podcasts for Thursday, May 30th, the Pollan Prank Edition. |
| 0:10.8 | I'm Gabriel Roth. I am the editorial director of Slate Podcasts, and I'm the father of Eliza, who's eight and Leo, who is almost five. |
| 0:17.1 | I'm Rebecca Levoy, a journalist and podcaster in New Hampshire, and I am Mom to Henry who is 17, Teddy, who is 16, and my stepdaughter Lily, who is almost 19. |
| 0:26.4 | And I'm Carvel Wallace, a writer and podcaster in Oakland, California, and I'm the father to Georgia, who is 13 and graduating middle school tomorrow, and Ezra, who is 16 16 and finishing the 10th grade tomorrow. |
| 0:39.8 | Congratulations. |
| 0:41.2 | Today on our show, we're going to take a big question. |
| 0:44.4 | As always, we're going to have triumphs and fails. |
| 0:46.2 | We're going to make recommendations. |
| 0:47.8 | And on Slate Plus, we're going to talk about what we have enjoyed, what we have hated, |
| 0:52.8 | and what we have learned from doing this |
| 0:54.5 | podcast for the past couple of years. But first, we have a couple of announcements to make about the |
| 0:59.4 | future of this podcast. I'm going to be leaving the show. And I am also going to be leaving the show. |
| 1:05.6 | Carvel. Why are you going to be leaving the show? In the script here, it says reasons. So I guess that's why I'm leaving the show. But it says reasons like in square brackets. Oh, I see. That would have thought you might fill in your reasons. The specifics of your reasons. Who wants something more specific? An inside look. Rather than just a very passive, aggressive way saying reasons. |
| 1:28.2 | Reasons. |
| 1:30.3 | No, I'm not going to be passive. |
| 1:31.5 | I'm going to be fully forthright. |
| 1:41.3 | So I'm leaving the podcast for a number of reasons, one of which is that I have a couple of major work projects that are coming up this year that are going to take a lot of time and attention. |
| 1:49.0 | The second reason is that I just want to be able to focus. I so often work on so many projects at once, and I've done that for the first few years of my career as a |
| 1:54.4 | professional contenter, content smith. But I just did a second book deal and that is going to require, it's going to ask for a level of focus that I would really like it to give it to it. |
| 2:11.0 | And then I have another few other tiny projects, which are too early to be announced at this point. |
| 2:15.4 | And so with those things coming forward, |
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