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Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

The Waves: Are “Cool Moms” A Menace?

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

Slate Audio

Kids & Family, Society & Culture, Parenting

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

On this bonus episode from our friends at The Waves, Slate senior editor Rebecca Onion is joined by NPR political reporter Danielle Kurtzleben to unpack all the fears that come with pending motherhood. They unpack Danielle’s brilliant Substack piece, “A Professional Lady Correspondent Stares Down Motherhood,” their fears of “cool moms” and…the possible merits of ”lean in feminism.” Heavy emphasis on the possible. In Slate Plus, how Danielle navigated covering abortion post-Roe while pregnant.    Podcast production by Cheyna Roth and Tori Dominguez with editorial oversight by Daisy Rosario and Alicia Montgomery. Send your comments and recommendations on what to cover to thewaves@slate.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:30.1

Hello mom and dad are fighting listeners. We wanted to bring you a special bonus episode

0:34.3

this weekend from The Waves, Slate's podcast on gender and feminism. NPR political reporter

0:40.0

Danielle Kurtz-Lavin joined Slate's Rebecca Onion to unpack all the fears that come with pending

0:45.2

motherhood. It's an interesting lesson even for those of us who've already started down the

0:49.9

parenthood path. I'm going to hand it over to Rebecca Onion and I'll see you back here on Monday.

1:11.2

Welcome to The Waves, Slate's podcast about gender, feminism, and fretting over impending

1:16.5

the trussence. Every episode you get a new paraphernalist to talk about the thing we can't get

1:21.5

off our minds. Today you've got me, Rebecca Onion, a senior editor at Slate.

1:27.3

So my daughter just had her six birthday and I was thinking about how before I became a mother,

1:33.2

I thought about it for about five years before going ahead and deciding to do it.

1:37.2

And so in the course of that I had a lot of conversations about it with friends who were parents,

1:41.4

friends who weren't. I made a lot of Google documents. I wrote about my fears around division

1:48.1

of labor, firstslate.com and other places. I made pro and conless. I tried to talk to my husband

1:54.1

about many, many possibilities which he was mystified by, frankly. One time I remember I was talking

1:59.7

to a friend who was turned out to be the first one in our friend group to have kids. Totally

2:05.0

lovely woman, a great mom whose son also kept me up all night at one tightly packed house party.

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