Technological Dystopia Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2018
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Carvell Wallace, Gabriel Roth, and Rebecca Lavoie discuss an educational math game called Prodigy, and how to deal with a kid's potential over-interest in a video game, then a follow-up to the controversial chicken pox discussion from a few weeks back, and "Triumphs and Fails" and recommendations.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.4 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday, March 22nd, the |
| 0:15.5 | technological dystopia edition. I'm Gabriel Roth. I'm an editor at Slate, and I am the father of |
| 0:20.2 | Eliza, who is seven years old, and Leo, who is three and three quarters. I'm Rebecca Levoy, a journalist and podcaster in New Hampshire, and I am mom to Henry, who is 16, Teddy, who is 15, and I have a stepdaughter, Lily, who is 17. And I'm Carvel Wallace, a journalist, writer, and podcaster in Oakland, California, and I'm the father to Georgia who is 12, and Ezra who is 15. |
| 0:42.2 | Today on our show, we've got a question from a caller whose nine-year-old daughter is suddenly addicted to an educational video game. |
| 0:49.7 | And we've got a follow-up call from the mom who was considering whether to send her chickenpox riddled child to infect the children of some anti-vaxxers. |
| 0:59.3 | If you'd like to hear more about that controversial question, stay tuned. |
| 1:03.9 | Plus, as always, we'll have triumphs and fails. |
| 1:06.3 | We'll have recommendations. |
| 1:07.6 | On Slate Plus, author and radio host, Brady Carlson, will join us to talk about |
| 1:12.2 | how he has programmed his smart speaker to help make their mornings easier. But first, |
| 1:17.4 | triumphs and fails. Carvel, you want to go first? Yeah, I have a triumph, or rather Georgia |
| 1:25.4 | has a triumph, and I just get to be the happy bystander. |
| 1:29.3 | But in her middle school, she, of her own accord, was somehow thrust into this position |
| 1:36.3 | of leadership in her school because her school has this restorative justice program, |
| 1:41.3 | which is a conflict mediation program in which they select certain |
| 1:45.0 | kids to act as conflict mediators when things jump off on the playground or in the cafeteria |
| 1:51.7 | between various kids. And so I don't remember Georgia got sort of one of the teachers was like, |
| 1:57.7 | I think you'd be good at this. And she agreed. And this was at the beginning of the year. And she's |
| 2:00.4 | been doing it ever since. And she agreed. And this was at the beginning of the year. And she's been doing it ever since. |
| 2:01.7 | And she does, like, mediate conflicts at school between groups of kids. |
| 2:05.5 | And she, like, is responsible for helping to enter the data and what the issues were and what the resolution was that they came to and following up. |
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