Teenage Invasion Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2017
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Rebecca Lavoie and Carvell Wallace are joined by actual teenager and Carvell's son, Ezra Wallace. They discuss what life is like for a biracial teen, plus triumphs and fails, recommendations and an Ezra lightning round.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:08.0 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcasts, |
| 0:11.2 | for Thursday, June 15th, the Teenage Invasion Edition. |
| 0:15.8 | I am Carvel Wallace. I'm a freelance writer in Oakland, and I'm the father of Georgia, |
| 0:19.4 | who is 11, and Ezra, who is 14. |
| 0:21.9 | I'm Rebecca Levoy. I am a writer and podcaster in New Hampshire, and I am the mother of Henry, |
| 0:26.6 | who is 15 and a half, Teddy, who is 14, and a stepdaughter, Lily, who is 17. |
| 0:32.1 | And today we're going to be discussing a listener question about having biracial children. |
| 0:36.8 | And as always, triumphs and fails and recommendations, you may have noticed that Gabe is not with us today. |
| 0:42.4 | He's out sick. |
| 0:43.6 | But we do have a very special guest in his stead. |
| 0:46.9 | Joining me in the Berkeley studio, live and in person, is... |
| 0:50.8 | My name is Ezra Wallace, and I am the child of Carville Wallace. I'm 14 years old. That's right. We have a real live child, teenager person in the studio. I can't wait. I've been looking forward to this. Like, you would not believe. It's going to be epic. All right. So let's get into triumphs and fails. Rebecca. Well, listeners of this show, I don't think you were on this episode, Carvel, I think was the first episode on this show on which I appeared. |
| 1:16.7 | I talked about how my son, Teddy, who's just about to graduate eighth grade, is not good at doing his homework and keeping up with the schoolwork in general and how I had hired basically a neighbor boy |
| 1:28.9 | who was a genius to be a teenage life coach for him to help him through and build those skills |
| 1:33.2 | and just to sit with him and do his homework so I didn't have to have that fight every day. |
| 1:36.9 | And at that time, I was saying, this is a triumph. |
| 1:39.3 | I figured this out. |
| 1:40.9 | Well, as it turns out, it was a total fail. |
| 1:43.2 | Teddy has been systematically continuing to do as little as |
| 1:47.8 | possible. And we have just a couple of days of the regular school year left. And I am once again |
| 1:54.3 | facing panicked emails from his German teacher and his English teacher and so forth about how he has this huge pile of stuff to do. |
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