Teenager Under the Bed Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Rebecca, Gabe, and Carvell answer listener questions about when to limit a five year old’s Batman intake and if parents should settle for second best when it comes to kid car seats. Yes, you read that right. And as usual, we share our triumphs and fails and offer up some recommendations. On Slate Plus, Rebecca dishes on her lavish time on a private jet.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:06.0 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcasts for Thursday, April 11th, the Teenager Under the Bed Edition. |
| 0:11.9 | I'm Gabriel Roth. I'm the editorial director of Slate Podcast, and I'm the father of Eliza, who's |
| 0:16.1 | eight years old, and Leo, who is four and three quarters. I'm Rebecca LaVoy, a journalist and |
| 0:20.4 | podcaster from New Hampshire, |
| 0:22.2 | although I'm recording this podcast today in windy but sunny Las Vegas. |
| 0:26.4 | And I am mom to Henry who is 17, Teddy who is 16, and my stepdaughter Lily, who is 18. |
| 0:31.5 | And I'm Carvel Wallace, a writer and podcaster in Oakland, California. |
| 0:35.2 | And I am the father to Georgia who's 13, and Ezra was 15. |
| 0:38.9 | Today on our show, we have a question about Batman, and we have another question about whether |
| 0:43.6 | there are circumstances in which you would want your kid's car seat to fail to protect them |
| 0:47.6 | from fatal injury. Yes, we do. Plus, as always, we'll have triumphs and fails. We will make |
| 0:53.2 | recommendations on Slate Plus. |
| 0:55.4 | We're going to find out how Rebecca and our family came to be flying on a private jet. |
| 0:59.7 | Apparently, there is some kind of parenting angle there. |
| 1:02.5 | But really, I think it's an excuse for Rebecca to talk to us about flying on a private jet. |
| 1:07.8 | Let's get started. |
| 1:09.0 | Triumphs and fails. |
| 1:10.8 | Rebecca, you want to go first? Yeah, I have a huge |
| 1:13.0 | triumph. We went on this short trip last week, which we'll talk about in Slate Plus. Kevin and I went, |
| 1:20.3 | and parents of little kids is going to, like, shock you that this is possible because it would |
| 1:24.9 | have shocked me that it would someday be possible. We left my 17-year-old San Henry in charge of our home and our dogs for one, two, three, for five days. |
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