"Should I Even Be a Parent?" Edition

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

Slate Audio

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2014

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Listen to Slate’s parenting podcast on whether you should allow your kids to play football and the decision to become a parent.

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0:26.3	contains explicit language
0:35.6	hello and welcome to mom and dad are fighting Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday September 25th. The should I even be a parent
0:39.8	edition? I'm Allison Benedict and editor at Slate and the mom of Harry 5 Sam 3 and Wally
0:45.9	Wotten. I'm Dan Coates I'm also an editor at Slate and the dad of Harper who is 7
0:50.7	and Lyra who is 9 my fail is that last episode I said Harper was six but she's seven
0:55.7	hi Allison hey today we'll be joined by Mike Pesca host host of Slate's Daily Podcast,
1:03.5	The Jist, to talk about football,
1:05.4	specifically should you let your kids play.
1:08.0	And then, to have kids or not to have kids.
1:11.2	And when to have them, Dan and I will talk about parenting ambivalence.
1:14.0	Plus parenting triumphs and fails, recommendations, and a listener call about strong female
1:19.2	protagonists in children's books.
1:21.0	First, reminders, a few reminders, please subscribe to mom and dad
1:25.3	are fighting in iTunes or your favorite podcast app and please keep spreading the word.
1:29.7	I know we say this every episode and you probably are just sort of tuning out as I'm saying it but we really really mean it the more listeners we get the better the show will be
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1:45.7	Currently, Phil Plate is hosting one on Doctor Who.
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