Sperm In Top Hats Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2017
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Gabriel Roth is joined this week by writer Carvell Wallace and Rebecca Lavoie, host of Crime Writers On..., to discuss those parenting hacks you just can't live without. They also answer a call from a listener struggling to decide if medication is right for her child. Also, the conclusion to last episode's daycare dilemma, on Slate Plus.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:06.3 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting. |
| 0:08.2 | Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday, March 30th, the Sperm in Top Hats edition. |
| 0:13.1 | I'm Gabriel Roth. |
| 0:14.1 | I'm an editor at Slate, and I'm the father of Eliza, age six, and Leo, who is two and a half. |
| 0:19.7 | I'm here for this very special episode with two, |
| 0:23.4 | not one, but two guest hosts, both of whom you've heard on the program in recent weeks. |
| 0:28.2 | First up from Oakland, California, we have the writer and critic Carvel Wallace. Carvel, say |
| 0:34.0 | hi and tell us about your kids. Hi, everyone. My name is Carvel and I have two kids, |
| 0:41.9 | Ezra, aged 14, my son and Georgia, aged 11, my daughter. And right now, the three of us are in a |
| 0:50.3 | long protracted debate about the true nature of life and is it important to do hard work. |
| 0:56.8 | Let us know what you figure out. |
| 0:59.9 | I'll let you know if I figure anything out. |
| 1:01.8 | Please do, yeah. |
| 1:03.2 | And from the Wilds of New Hampshire, we have the writer and podcaster Rebecca LaVoy, host also of the crime writers on podcast. Rebecca, hello. |
| 1:13.6 | Hello, I feel a little bit like Stacey Keenan and my two dads right now. That's just what I was |
| 1:17.4 | thinking about. You guys didn't watch my two dads, didn't you? No, no, I didn't. I did. I loved |
| 1:23.6 | that show growing up. Yay. Tell us about your kids, Rebecca. Well, I have a studious and mature 15 and a half year old named Henry, who's learning to drive, and a goofy and adorable and brilliant 14-year-old named Teddy. So two boys, both teenagers, and of course, I have a 16-year-old stepdaughter named Lily. Nice. All right. The three of us are going to be talking today about your |
| 1:46.0 | parenting hacks. I say you, because I'm addressing you, the listener with your headphones on or |
| 1:50.9 | driving in your car. You personally have posted suggestions for parenting tricks and hacks and ways |
| 1:58.4 | of making your family life work and ways of making your kids behave properly. |
| 2:03.6 | You post them to our Facebook page. You called them into our voicemail today. We're going to be discussing them. Some of them are brilliant and other listeners will want to adopt them. |
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