Secret Twins Edition

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

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Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Rebecca Lavoie, Carvell Wallace, and Gabriel Roth discuss how and whether to reveal a stuffed animal related conspiracy, whether sexual abuse at camp should worry parents, teaching boys to wash their clothes, the sexism of dress codes and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Spark your creativity with the Sims. Sometimes you might feel like you're not creative
0:07.0	and you have to go in search of your creative spark again. Maybe this is catching up with creative
0:11.9	friends, experimenting with a new look or trying out a new recipe.
0:16.0	And thanks to The Sims, inspiration is just one game and one spark away.
0:21.0	Ready to spark something? Download the Sims 4 and play for free.
0:27.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:37.0	Welcome to mom and dad are fighting.
0:39.0	Slates parenting podcast for Thursday, February 8th, The Secret Twins Edition.
0:43.5	I'm Gabriel Roff.
0:44.5	I'm an editor at Slate, and I am the father of Leo,
0:47.0	who is 3.5, and also of Eliza, who is 7 years old.
0:50.1	I'm Rebecca Lervoy, a journalist and podcaster in New Hampshire, and I am mom in absentia to Henry, who is 16,
0:58.0	Teddy who is 15, and my stepdaughter Lily who is 17.
1:01.0	And I'm Carvel Wallace, a writer and podcaster in Oakland, California, and I am the father to Georgia,
1:05.9	who is 12, and Ezra who is 14.
1:08.9	Today on our show, we have a question from a mother who is scared to send her son to camp for fear that he will encounter sexual abuse.
1:16.4	We also have a question from another mom whose solution to the problem of dirty stuffed toys is potentially coming back to bite her in the ass in fascinating ways.
1:25.4	Plus as always, we'll have triumphs, we'll have fails, we'll have things to recommend to you.
1:29.5	On Slate Plus we will take a third question. So many great questions this week.
1:34.2	This one about the eternal problem of teenage boys
1:37.3	and hygiene.
1:39.1	Triumphs and fails.
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