The Hardest Age Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2017
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
On today's show, hosts Allison Benedikt and Gabriel Roth chat with Suniya Luthar, Foundation Professor of Psychology at Arizona State. They discuss her recent study, which shows that the middle-school years are often the most stressful for families. Slate's Brow Beat editor Sam Adams also joins to talk about Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and wether it's too violent for children. Plus, a listener call about homophobic parents.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:08.5 | Hello and welcome to mom and dad are fighting Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday, January 5th, the Hardest Age Edition. |
| 0:15.4 | I'm Alison Benedict, an editor at Slate, and the mom of Harry 8, Sam, 5, and Wally 3. And I'm Gabriel Roth, a senior editor at Slate and the mom of Harry 8, Sam 5, and Wally 3. |
| 0:22.6 | And I'm Gabriel Roth, a senior editor at Slate, the editorial director of Slate Plus, |
| 0:27.1 | and most importantly, the father of Eliza 6 and Leo, 2.5. |
| 0:31.6 | Hi, Gabe. Happy New Year. |
| 0:32.8 | Hey, thanks. Same to you. |
| 0:34.1 | So, guys, Dan, as you know, is no longer a host of the show. And you're probably |
| 0:39.3 | wondering what the heck we're going to do now. What I can tell you is that we're in the |
| 0:43.6 | process of figuring it out. We'll have news soon. And I hope you'll hang with us until then |
| 0:48.0 | and beyond after then forever. But for right now, I'm going to be hosting with friends. So, on to today's show. |
| 0:58.1 | We'll talk to the author of a new study about how parenting tweens is actually the hardest |
| 1:02.4 | parenting phase of all. And then Slate editor Sam Adams will join us to talk about Rogue One, |
| 1:08.7 | specifically, should I let my five-year-old see it? Also, parenting |
| 1:12.1 | triumphs and fails, recommendations, and a listener call about a foster child in homophobia. |
| 1:17.2 | But first, announcements. |
| 1:19.2 | I'm going to be talking to you about Slate Plus, Slate's membership program. Members of Slate Plus |
| 1:23.8 | get more of this and their other favorite Slate podcasts. For instance, this week we'll be talking to Michelle Goldberg, Slate Writer Extraordinaire, |
| 1:31.8 | about a remarkable family holiday that she just returned from. |
| 1:35.6 | These Slate Plus segments are often an opportunity to go behind the scenes, |
| 1:38.9 | find out more about the triumphs and fails of the Slate editors and writers who are also parents. Slate Plus members also |
| 1:47.6 | get extra segments for the political gab fest, the culture gab fest, the gist, a lot of our other |
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