Spurious Holiday Grinch Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2017
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Gabriel Roth, Rebecca Lavoie, and Carvell Wallace gather round the podcasting hearth for a holiday edition of Mom and Dad Are Fighting, with holiday-related listener questions and recommendations, plus "Triumphs and Fails" and more.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for December 21st, the Spurious Holiday Grinch edition. |
| 0:16.6 | I'm Gabriel Roth, an editor at Slate, and the father of Eliza, age 6, and Leo, who is three. I'm Rebecca Lavoie, a journalist and podcaster in New Hampshire, and I'm Gabriel Roth, an editor at Slate, and the father of Eliza, age 6, and Leo, who is 3. |
| 0:21.8 | I'm Rebecca Lavoie, a journalist and podcaster in New Hampshire, and I am mom to Henry, who is 16, Teddy, who is 14, and my stepdaughter, Lily, who is 17. |
| 0:30.3 | And I'm Carvel Wallace, a journalist, writer, and podcaster in Oakland, California, and I am the father to Georgia who is 12, and Ezra, who is 14. |
| 0:40.2 | Today on a very special holiday-themed edition of Mom and Dad are Fighting, we have a call from a |
| 0:45.7 | listener who's not sure what to do about the problem of Santa Claus, and another whose mother |
| 0:51.0 | will not stop giving them Christmas ornaments. What can they do? |
| 0:55.3 | Plus, as always, we will have triumphs and fails. |
| 0:57.7 | We'll have recommendations. |
| 0:59.0 | And on Slate Plus, we'll talk to Slate writer Rachel Withers about her piece, |
| 1:04.2 | about the gloriously incompetent politicians of children's television. |
| 1:09.0 | Why are cartoon mayors always such? Why are cartoon mayors always such... |
| 1:12.5 | Why are cartoon mayors always such poor municipal administrators? |
| 1:17.8 | Carvel, you're up. |
| 1:19.4 | Triumph or fail? |
| 1:20.7 | I have a triumph. |
| 1:21.7 | I have a triumph, which is that... |
| 1:23.4 | This is the most typical of sitcom parenting triumphs. |
| 1:27.0 | Wednesday, I pick up Georgia from school and she, she and I, it was a day in which she gets out |
| 1:34.0 | early. Both these kids have one day a week where they get out early from school, which just |
| 1:37.8 | never ceases to irritate me. But usually on these Wednesdays, she goes to her friends and then |
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