The Mom and Dad Have Answers Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2016
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Allison and Dan spelunk deep into their psyches to answer listener calls.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:08.0 | Hello and welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting Slate's Parenting podcast. |
| 0:11.5 | For September 1st, 2016, the Mom and Dad Have Answers Edition. |
| 0:16.2 | I'm Dan Cois. I'm the dad of Harper, who is now nine. Happy birthday Harper. |
| 0:24.3 | And Lyra, who's 11? Happy birthday, Harper. I'm Alison dad of Harper, who is now nine. Happy birthday Harper. And Lyra, who's 11? Happy birthday Harper. I'm Alison Benedict, also an editor at Slate and the mom of Harry 7, Sam 5, and Wally 3. Hi, Dan. |
| 0:30.8 | Hey, Allison. It is our very special call-in show this week. We have a ton of amazing and weird and tough questions from you, our beloved |
| 0:40.2 | listeners. We're going to answer as many of them as we can. Plus, of course, triumphs and fails, |
| 0:44.2 | recommendations. And in our plus segment, we will harshly judge Slate newswriter Ben Mathis |
| 0:49.5 | Lily about a triumph or fail from his brand new parenting life. But first, Allison. |
| 0:55.1 | I'll keep this one short at the request of one angry listener. |
| 0:59.2 | Please like our Facebook page, Facebook.com slash mom and dad are fighting. |
| 1:03.5 | That's all. |
| 1:04.3 | You know how that listener could make that pitch shorter by liking our Facebook page? |
| 1:09.2 | I think he said he refuses to do it because I, |
| 1:11.3 | we're making him so mad. |
| 1:12.6 | Well, now he will, for sure. |
| 1:15.6 | All right. |
| 1:16.5 | Triumphs and fails. |
| 1:17.9 | I will start. |
| 1:19.6 | I have a triumph. |
| 1:21.7 | Thank you. |
| 1:22.4 | Thank you. |
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