The Return of the Dan Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2017
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Carvell Wallace, Nina Aron, and Dan Kois sit down with clinical psychologist Dr. Ava Siegler to talk about her new book, What Do I Tell My Kids?: Parenting in the Age of Trump, which includes an essay by guest host Dan Kois. They discuss the origins of the project, how to talk to your kids about difficult political situations, where we stand now, and whether we should have hope for the future of politics. In Triumphs and Fails, Carvell panics over his daughter's trip to the amusement park, Nina frets over her child's non-belief in God, and Dan has a Father's Day tantrum.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:08.3 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcasts for Thursday, July 27th, |
| 0:13.9 | The Return of the Dan edition. |
| 0:16.8 | I'm Carvel Wallace, a freelance writer out in Oakland, and I'm the father of Georgia, who is 11, and Ezra, who is 14. |
| 0:24.0 | Hi, I'm Dan Coice. I'm a writer and editor for Slate, currently living in Samara, Costa Rica. |
| 0:29.9 | I'm the dad of Lyra, who's 12, and Harper, who is about to turn 10. |
| 0:34.5 | And I'm Nina Aaron. I'm a writer and editor in Oakland, California. |
| 0:55.0 | And I am the mom of Emmett, who's eight, and Iona, who is five and a half. Awesome. It's good to have you on this show, Nina. This is Nina's first time ever on her podcast. So I'm thrilled to be here. She's excited. Today we'll be talking with Dr. Ava Siegler about her new book. How do I explain this to my kids? |
| 0:59.8 | A collection of essays about parenting in the age of Trump featuring our own Dan Coys. |
| 1:05.5 | We're also going to do recommendations and a listener question, but first, triumphs and fails. |
| 1:06.9 | Nina, what do you have for us? |
| 1:09.4 | Okay, mine is a little weird. |
| 1:15.3 | I was at a – it's a fail. Let me say that right off the bat. I was at a dinner at Friends House this week, and we left my son there to have a sleepover with their |
| 1:21.3 | kid. I was driving home with my five-year-old daughter, and it was one of those, like, beautiful |
| 1:26.0 | Bay Area summer evenings. |
| 1:28.2 | The sky was pink. We were, like, cruising in our station wagon. Everything was lovely. |
| 1:32.5 | And she said, who made the world in that way that they do at that age where it's like, you know, one of those wonderful, that whole sense of wonderment that's, like, the best part of being a parent? |
| 1:45.1 | She said, it's so, |
| 1:52.4 | the world is so beautiful and who made the world? And I was like, well, you know, there's so many people in the world and people have different answers to that question. A lot of people believe |
| 1:57.3 | that the world was made by God, but I don't believe that, but I agree that the world is |
| 2:03.1 | absolutely marvelous and gorgeous. And nobody really knows the answer to that question. And then she |
| 2:09.8 | was quiet for a second. I said, do you believe in God? And she said, I want to, but I can't because |
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