Recovering Fruitbat Edtion
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2018
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Carvell Wallace, Isaac Butler, and Ruth Graham discuss how to get your kid to go to sleep already, angry-driving with fussing toddlers, letting go of expectations around your kids, and the ethics of breaking into your teenager's phone.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, September 13th, the recovering fruit bat edition. |
| 0:17.5 | My name is Carvel Wallace. I'm a journalist and editor in Oakland, California, and I am the father to Georgia who |
| 0:23.1 | was 13 and Ezra who is 15. |
| 0:25.6 | Gabe and Rebecca are both out this week, but they'll be back next week. |
| 0:29.6 | So today we've got two special guests. |
| 0:31.6 | Hi, my name's Isaac Butler. |
| 0:33.6 | I am a writer and also the host of Lend Me Your Ears, a Slate podcast about Shakespeare |
| 0:40.8 | and Politics. And I am the father to Iris who turns for this Sunday. I'm Ruth Graham. I'm a |
| 0:47.1 | journalist and a slate contributor in New Hampshire. And I'm the mother of Mary, age three. |
| 0:52.3 | And we're happy to have both you guys here. |
| 0:54.5 | So today we're going to be taking listener questions about the ethics of digging into your |
| 0:58.6 | teenager's phone and about how to get your four-year-old to go the F to sleep already. |
| 1:04.2 | And in Slate Plus, we'll be talking to Slate Technology Director Greg Lavalie about a fail |
| 1:10.0 | regarding his school's PTA. |
| 1:11.8 | But first, triumphs and fails. |
| 1:13.6 | Isaac, did you have a triumph or a parenting fail this week? |
| 1:16.3 | Tell us about it. |
| 1:17.1 | I guess it's a triumph. |
| 1:19.3 | Clutching victory from the jaws of defeat is a triumph, right? |
| 1:23.3 | I don't know if this is true in everyone's neck of the woods, but August and September are a blasted, vacant hellscape when it comes to child care in New York City. |
| 1:35.9 | And Iris's school did not start until today. |
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