Stupid Box Edition

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

Slate Audio

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode: Gabe and Rebecca answer listener questions on what to do after you discover your kid isn’t a child prodigy and how to get your teen to maybe surf waves instead of the internet. And as usual, we share our triumphs and fails and offer up some recommendations. On Slate Plus, Rebecca shares a fail so epic you have to tune in to find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Following podcast contains explicit language.
0:05.9	Welcome to mom and dad are fighting.
0:07.3	Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday, May 2nd,
0:10.3	the stupid box edition.
0:11.8	I'm Gabriel Roth.
0:13.0	I'm the editorial director of Slate Podcasts,
0:15.0	and I'm the father of Eliza, who's eight years old,
0:17.0	and Leo, who is four and three quarters.
0:19.0	I'm Rebecca Lervoy, a journalist and podcaster in New Hampshire,
0:22.0	and I am mom to Henry who is 17,
0:24.4	Teddy who is 16 and my stepdaughter Lily who is 18.
0:28.3	Carvel Wallace claims to be on deadline this week.
0:31.6	I think he's just relaxing on the beach. Today on our show
0:34.8	we've got a question about a child who is neither gifted nor talented and another
0:39.8	about a teenager who is wasting his summer praying in vain for a savior to rise from these streets.
0:45.5	Plus as always, we'll have tramps and fails, we'll make recommendations, and on slate plus we've got a topic that's so hot, Rebecca won't even let me tell you what it is unless you're a Slate Plus member.
0:58.7	Slate.com slash mom and dad Plus.
1:02.1	But we're going to start with Triumph and Fails Rebecca are you gonna start with a Triumph or a Fail
1:08.4	I'm gonna start with a resounding Triumph I hope you have a fail so you feel extra bad afterwards
1:12.1	I have a Triumph unfortunately I'm gonna have to I'll think have a fail so you feel extra bad afterwards. I have a triumph unfortunately. I'm going to
1:14.1	to think of a fail while you're talking. No it's okay, but I'm also going to listen to what you're saying. I'm going to do both.
1:19.3	Well, mine is not anything particularly having to do with parenting just that I took just it was just
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