Some Kids Are Jerks Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2017
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Rebecca Lavoie and Gabriel Roth talk to Elissa Strauss about her article in Elle, "The Leftover Embryo Crisis", answer a question about dealing with friends whose kids don't get along with their kids, plus "Triumphs and Fails" and recommendations.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.3 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, October 12th, the Some Kids Are Jerks Edition. |
| 0:16.4 | I'm Gabriel Roth. I'm an editor at Slate and the father of Eliza, age six, and Leo, who's three. |
| 0:21.3 | I'm Rebecca Levoy. I am a journalist of Eliza, age six, and Leo, who's three. I'm Rebecca Levoy. |
| 0:22.3 | I am a journalist and podcaster in New Hampshire, and I am mom to Henry, who is 16 years old, Teddy, who is 14 years old, and my stepdaughter, Lily, who is 17 years old. Carvel Wallace can't be with us this week. He'll be back next time. today on our show. We're going to be talking to the writer Alyssa Strauss, about one million |
| 0:39.9 | frozen embryos that nobody knows what. with us this week. He'll be back next time. Today on our show, we're going to be talking to |
| 0:37.5 | the writer Alyssa Strauss about one million frozen embryos that nobody knows what to do with, |
| 0:42.2 | including her own. Plus, we have a question from a listener whose kids hate their parents' friends' |
| 0:47.7 | kids. And as always, we will have triumphs and fails. We will have recommendations. On Slate Plus, |
| 0:53.3 | you'll get to hear a little bit more about Rebecca's |
| 0:55.3 | children's personal lives. But first off, triumphs and fails. Rebecca, what do you have for us? |
| 1:02.3 | I have what might be a triumph in progress, but it's one of those things where even the process is a triumph. |
| 1:07.7 | So even if it turns out to be a fail, it feels good today. So I'm going to call it a triumph. |
| 1:13.5 | A couple weeks ago, I alluded vaguely to the shifting dynamics between my ex-husband and I, the |
| 1:20.3 | kid's dad and I. And we have been in a really good place lately. Like our co-parenting groove is |
| 1:27.0 | definitely like good. And we have |
| 1:30.1 | been really communicative and making a lot of decisions together and helping each other out and |
| 1:34.6 | being really flexible. And it's just been really great. And part of this has played out around |
| 1:39.3 | Teddy and his ADHD medication, which I think I've mentioned in an earlier podcast last year, he decided |
| 1:46.3 | to stop taking it at the beginning of his eighth grade year. And he proceeded to have an |
| 1:50.5 | outstanding year socially and an abysmal year academically. And he has been expressing interest |
| 1:57.7 | in trying medication again. And just for a little bit of background, |
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