Potty Camp Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2017
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Gabriel Roth, Rebecca Lavoie, and Carvell Wallace discuss how many performances of Bye Bye Birdie is too many, what's normal around divorced families holidays, and how to potty train without ruining your child.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:09.9 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, December |
| 0:13.6 | 28th, the potty camp edition. I'm Gabriel Roth. I'm an editor at Slate, and I'm the father |
| 0:18.4 | of Eliza H7 and Leo, who is three. I'm Rebecca Leavoie. I'm a journalist and podcaster. I live in New Hampshire, and my kids are Henry, who is 16, Teddy, who is 14, and my stepdaughter, Lily, who is 17. And I'm Carval Wallace, a writer and podcaster in Oakland, California, and I am the father to Georgia who is 12, and Ezra, who is |
| 0:38.4 | 14. |
| 0:39.6 | Today on our show, we have a question from a listener who is trying to figure out the holidays |
| 0:44.1 | after getting divorced, and another who's having trouble with potty training. |
| 0:48.0 | Plus, as always, we'll have triumphs and fails. |
| 0:50.9 | We'll have recommendations. |
| 0:51.7 | On Slate Plus, Slate's own Faith Smith will share her own |
| 0:56.2 | bilingual education parenting fail. But first, time for triumphs and fails. Rebecca, is it a |
| 1:04.0 | triumph week or a fail week? I don't know. I'm going to let you guys decide, okay? So Teddy is in |
| 1:10.5 | the school musical. He's a freshman, and he is in the school musical. |
| 1:11.8 | He's a freshman, and he is in the chorus of Bye Bye Birdie. |
| 1:15.5 | And he's been rehearsing with the cast since, you know, the fall. |
| 1:19.8 | The show is in a couple of weeks. |
| 1:21.5 | He's really excited about it. |
| 1:22.9 | It's really his first foray onto the stage, except for singing in chorus and being in the band. It's his first foray onto the stage, except for, you know, singing and chorus and being in the band. |
| 1:29.0 | It's his first foray into acting and dancing and all that stuff. And he's really excited about it. |
| 1:34.2 | He's been like, you know, doing some of the dance moves, like in the kitchen. And he's in like the |
| 1:38.6 | little vocal quartet and all that stuff. So he brought home this week a form for parents to pre-order tickets to the show. |
| 1:46.8 | And the show is like on a Friday night and then a Saturday afternoon and then a Saturday night. |
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