The Sad Laura Ashley Bat Mitzvah Dress Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2017
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
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.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:08.7 | Hello and welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcasts, |
| 0:12.4 | for Thursday, January 19th, the Sad Laura Ashley-Bott-Mittsvadress edition. |
| 0:17.3 | I'm Gabriel Roth. I'm an editor at Slate and the dad of Eliza H6 and Leo, who's two and a half. |
| 0:23.3 | Allison Benedict is out this week. I'm here with a special guest. |
| 0:27.2 | I'm Lizzie Skernick, the mother of Javier, who's three years old. |
| 0:32.2 | On today's show, I'll be talking to Lizzie about her own unconventional family and about an unusual family get-together that took place at her home this past weekend. |
| 0:41.0 | And then we'll talk to author Devorah Heitner about rules for social media, not the ones that we impose on our kids, but the ones kids impose on one another. |
| 0:49.8 | Also, there will be parenting triumphs and fails, recommendations, and we'll hear from a listener who wants to know whether to take her daughter to the Women's March in Washington this weekend. |
| 0:59.3 | And then in our Slate Plus segment, we will get to hear from Allison Benedict, who will drop by to tell us about a particularly excruciating parenting fail. |
| 1:10.1 | If you want to hear about that, if you want to support our show, |
| 1:12.6 | if you want to get more of this podcast and your other favorite podcasts every week, |
| 1:16.6 | you can sign up for SlatePlus at slate.com slash plus. |
| 1:21.8 | Join today. |
| 1:23.2 | And if you want to hear more from Allison, you can find out on our Facebook page. |
| 1:29.0 | I'm going to make her post an update on that page to tell everyone what's up with her. |
| 1:34.1 | And you will be able to see that update. |
| 1:37.0 | That page is at facebook.com slash mom and dad are fighting. |
| 1:41.7 | And while you're there, you can post a snide comment about my vocal fry. |
| 1:45.4 | That page for you again, Facebook.com slash mom and dad are fighting. Okay, triumphs and obviously |
| 1:52.6 | fails. Lizzie? So my fail is very tragic because it was entirely avoidable and I'm the one who instigated it. So Javier and I, |
| 2:05.3 | my son Javier and I, like to read the Nutshell libraries. And in one of the alphabet books from |
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