The Competitive Step-Parenting Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2017
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Rebecca Lavoie, Gabriel Roth, and Carvell Wallace answer a call about managing the adult relationships in a step-child's life, and Carvell shares news about his son's computer. As always, we've got triumphs and fails, and recommendations.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:11.2 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, September 14th, |
| 0:16.0 | the competitive step parenting edition. |
| 0:17.9 | I'm Gabriel Roth, an editor at Slate, and the father of Eliza, age six, |
| 0:22.2 | and Leo, who is three. I'm Rebecca Levoy. I'm a journalist and podcaster in New Hampshire. I'm |
| 0:27.6 | mom to Henry, who is 16. I have a stepdaughter, Lily, who is 17, a son, Teddy, who is 14. |
| 0:34.4 | And for the next three days, I've got a German exchange student who is also 15 named |
| 0:39.0 | Moritz. |
| 0:40.0 | This is the last episode in which we'll be hearing about Moritz in the introductions. |
| 0:44.2 | So let's take this moment. |
| 0:46.6 | He's loving America, so he may end up moving in. I don't know. |
| 0:50.2 | Let's take this moment to say goodbye to the Moritz era. |
| 0:54.9 | The Moritz episodes. |
| 0:55.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:57.3 | And I am Carvel Wallace, a editor and writer based out in Oakland, and I'm the father of Georgia who is 12, and Ezra who is 14. |
| 1:06.8 | Today on our show, we've got a question from a listener who's trying to be a supportive step-parent under difficult circumstances, and Carvel has a surprising update on his son, Ezra's new computer. |
| 1:19.8 | Plus, as always, we'll have triumphs and fails, recommendations, and on Slate Plus, Rebecca will update us even further about her son Henry's love life. |
| 1:28.2 | There are all kinds of nitty-gritty details that you will not want to miss. |
| 1:31.7 | So if you're not a Slate Plus member, you can become one at slate.com slash mom and dad plus. |
| 1:37.7 | Let's start with triumphs and fails. |
| 1:39.6 | Carvel, welcome back. |
| 1:40.8 | Has it been a triumphant time for you or has it been a time of failure? |
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