The Six Kids and Twelve Nannys Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2016
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Dan and Allison search for insight into the mystery of Brangelexit by speaking with two members of a real-life big family, Noreen Malone and her mom, Mary Ellen Brennan. Also, Siân Stevens, an aging services specialist, talks about the important conversations we all must have with our aging parents. In the Slate Plus segment, Aisha Harris reminisces about "All My Children," as a tribute to the show's creator, Agnes Nixon, who died on September 28th.
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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 Podcast for September 29th, the Six Kids and Twelve Nannies Edition. |
| 0:15.7 | I'm Dan Coise. I'm the dad of Harper, who is nine, and Lyra, who is 11. I'm an editor at Slate and a co-host of this fine podcast. |
| 0:23.4 | That is weird that you had to put in that last part. |
| 0:27.5 | I am Alison Benedict, also an editor at Slate, also a co-host of this fine podcast, |
| 0:32.5 | and the mother of Harry, who is seven. |
| 0:36.3 | It took me a second. |
| 0:37.2 | Who can remember? |
| 0:38.5 | Sam 5 and Wally 3. |
| 0:40.7 | Hi, Alson. |
| 0:41.8 | Hey. |
| 0:42.3 | If you can't remember how old your three kids are, imagine what it's like having six |
| 0:46.8 | kids like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. |
| 0:49.6 | On today's episode, we're talking Rangelix that because we are us, we are viewing it |
| 0:53.7 | not through the celebrity lens, but through the parenting lens. How impossible is it really to raise six kids? We'll talk to Noreen Malone of New York Magazine and the Double X Gab Fest, one of six kids and her hardworking mom, Mary Ellen Brennan. Then, many parents find themselves stuck as part of the so-called sandwich generation, taking care of kids on one side and aging parents on the other. |
| 1:13.7 | We'll talk with Sean Stevens of Chicagoland Methodist Senior Services about managing those responsibilities and about how to talk to your kids about the challenges and rewards of senior care. |
| 1:22.6 | Plus, triumphs and fails, recommendations, and a listener call from a nanny. |
| 1:27.0 | And for our plus segment, we'll talk to Slates, Aisha Harris, about bonding with her mom over all my children. Join Slate Plus at Slate.com slash Fighting Plus. Over to you, Allison. Are you talking very fast today? Yeah. It feels like you're talking really fast. I've been doing 90 seconds of Slate. Slate's 90 second podcast, and I really got in the habit of just fucking rocking through it. |
| 1:44.8 | Okay, I'm going to slow things down. |
| 1:47.0 | You're going to slow jam this announcement? |
| 1:49.1 | Please like us on our Facebook page. |
| 1:53.3 | Facebook.com slash mom and dad are fighting. |
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