Porn, Actually Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2017
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Rebecca Lavoie, Carvell Wallace, and Gabriel Roth discuss dealing with media you find problematic and whether it's worth trying to filter it for your kids, the n-word, broken nanny dates, and more, in Triumphs and Fails and Recommendations.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday, May 18th, the porn actually edition. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Gabriel Roth. I'm an editor at Slate, and I'm the father of Eliza, who is six, and Leo, who is almost three. I'm Rebecca |
| 0:23.3 | Levoy. I'm a podcaster in New Hampshire, and I have Henry, who is 15, Teddy, who is 14, and my |
| 0:29.9 | stepdaughter, Lily, who is 16. And I am Carvel Wallace. I'm a freelance writer in Oakland, |
| 0:35.5 | California, and I have Georgia who is 11, and Ezra, who is 14. |
| 0:40.1 | This week on our show, we're talking about media filtering, all the stuff that your kids want to read or watch or listen to that you're not sure about, and how do you handle that? |
| 0:50.5 | We'll also have triumphs, fails, recommendations, and On Slate Plus, Rebecca |
| 0:55.9 | Onion comes back with a crazy twist in the saga of the hippie nanny. First, a couple of |
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| 1:14.9 | Tell us what you think of the show. |
| 1:16.6 | Present us with questions, |
| 1:18.1 | quandaries, problems, your own triumphs, fails, etc. |
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| 1:28.2 | Thirdly, if you were not yet a member of Slate Plus, you will want to hear the ongoing |
| 1:33.2 | saga of Rebecca Onion and the hippie nanny. |
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