The Sad Laura Ashley Bat Mitzvah Dress Edition

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

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Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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On today's show, hosts Gabriel Roth, editor at Slate, and Lizzie Skurnick, author of That Should Be A Word, talk about Lizzie's experience as a single mother raising a son whose father is an anonymous sperm donor. Then, they chat with Dr. Devorah Heitner, author of the book Screenwise, about the unspoken rules that influence kid's choices on social media. Also, a listener question about bringing young daughters to this weekend's Women's March on Washington and a particularly complicated fail from Allison in our Slate Plus segment. Mom and Dad Are Fighting is brought to you by Blue Apron. Blue Apron’s meal kits are delivered right to your door, and make cooking at home easy. Get your first THREE meals FREE by going to BlueApron.com/momanddad. And by ZipRecruiter. Post your job listing to all the top job sites with a single click. Try it for free by going to ZipRecruiter.com/first. And by NatureBox. For snacks that taste great AND are better for you, just go to NatureBox.com/momanddad and you’ll get 50 percent off your first order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.0	Hello and welcome to mom and dad are fighting.
0:08.0	Slate's parenting podcast,
0:12.5	for Thursday, January 19th,
0:14.5	the Sad Laura Ashley Botitzvadress Edition.
0:17.3	I'm Gabriel Roth, I'm an editor at Slate,
0:19.3	and the dad of Eliza, H6, and Leo, who's two and a half.
0:23.3	Hallison Benedict is out this week.
0:25.0	I'm here with a special guest.
0:27.2	I'm Lizzy Skernick, the mother of Javier, who's three years old.
0:32.2	On today's show, I'll be talking to Lizzy about her own
0:35.0	unconventional family and about an unusual family get-together that took place
0:39.2	at her home this past weekend and then we'll talk to author Devorah Heitner about rules for
0:44.3	social media not the ones that we impose on our kids but the ones kids impose on
0:48.6	one another also there will be parenting triumphs and fails recommendations and we'll hear from a listener who wants to know
0:54.9	whether to take her daughter to the Women's March in Washington this weekend.
0:59.4	And then in our Slate Plus segment, we will get to hear from Allison Benedict who will drop by to tell
1:06.1	us about a particularly excruciating parenting fail.
1:10.1	If you want to hear about that, if you want to support our show, if you want to get more of this podcast and your other favorite podcast every week, you can sign up for Slate Plus at slate.com.
1:20.0	Slashplus. Join today. And if you want to hear more from Allison, you can find out on our
1:27.9	Facebook page. I'm going to make her post an update on that page to tell everyone what's up with her and you will be able to see that
1:36.2	update that pages at Facebook.com slash mom and dad are fighting and while you're there you can post a snide comment about my vocal fry that
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