Simpering Airhead Mermaid Edition

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

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Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Gabriel Roth, Rebecca Lavoie, and Katherine Goldstein discuss failed voice lessons, resigning yourself to chicken nuggets, dude time, what to do about sexist cartoons, how to cope with friends with bad parenting technique, plus recommendations and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.2	Welcome to mom and dad are fighting.
0:11.2	Welcome to mom and dad are fighting.
0:12.2	Slates parenting podcast for Thursday March 15th, the Simpering
0:16.2	Airhead Mermaid Edition. I'm Gabriel Roth. I'm an editor at Slight and the father of Eliza
0:20.6	age 7 and Leo who is three and three quarters.
0:23.8	I'm a journalist and podcaster in New Hampshire, and I am mom to Henry who is 16,
0:29.2	Teddy who is 15, and I have a beautiful stepdaughter Lily who is 17. I'm
0:33.0	I'm Catherine Goldstein in for Carvel Wallace and I'm the mom to Asher who is two and a half.
0:39.0	Today on our show, we have a question about what to do when you hate your friends kids
0:45.1	and another about what to do when you hate your kids favorite TV shows. Plus as
0:49.0	always we'll have triumphs and fails we'll have recommendations and on slate plus you'll get to hear Rebecca dish on her evolving relationship
0:56.2	with her son's girlfriend's family.
0:58.0	If you want to hear that segment and many more, Slate.com, slash Mom and Dad.
1:02.7	Plus, first, though, triumphs and fails.
1:05.4	Catherine, welcome to the show.
1:06.9	How has your weekend?
1:07.7	Has it been a week of triumph for a week of failure?
1:10.2	Well, so today I have a fail, which I am going to describe as a slow unfolding fail over many months
1:18.0	or perhaps even a year, given the fact that my son has only two and a half, I think is pretty
1:22.3	an impressive
1:23.4	le long stint of fail okay so my son can be a picky eater and I know this is like par for the course toddlers are picky they have
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