"The Porn Talk" Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2014
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Listen to Slate’s parenting podcast on talking to your children about porn and whether the tradition of the family meal is overrated.
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| 0:26.4 | contains explicit language |
| 0:30.1 | hello and welcome to mom and dad are fighting, Slate's Parenting |
| 0:35.8 | Team Podcast for Thursday, September 11th, the Porn Talk Edition. I'm Dan Coise. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm the dad of Lyra, who is nine, and Harper who is six, and I'm an Coise. I'm the dad of Lira who is nine and Harper who is six and I'm an editor at slate |
| 0:45.2 | I'm Allison Benedict also an editor at slate and the mother of Harry five Sam three and Wally one |
| 0:51.4 | Hey Allison, hey Allison. Hey, Allison. Hey. |
| 0:53.0 | All right, Allison, what year is it? |
| 0:55.0 | Uh, 2014? |
| 0:57.0 | You could say that with a little more vigor. |
| 0:59.0 | 2014. |
| 1:01.0 | It's not 1985? No. |
| 1:04.0 | It's 2014 and there is a lot of porn on the internet. |
| 1:06.0 | So your kids are definitely going to see some banging. |
| 1:08.0 | And this week we'll be talking to Slate's own Dollylithwick about the best ways to talk about that with your kids. |
| 1:13.9 | We're also discussing family dinners and a new study that suggests that they might be more trouble |
| 1:17.8 | than their worth. |
| 1:18.8 | Plus parenting triumphs and fails and a listener call about body image and politeness. |
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