The Your Own Personal Fantasyland Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2014
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Listen to Slate's parenting podcast on the dos and don'ts of allowance and the magical wonder that is Disney.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:03.2 | Hello and welcome to mom and dad are fighting. |
| 0:09.8 | Slate's parenting podcast for October 23rd, 2014, the Your Own Personal Fantasyland Edition. |
| 0:15.8 | I'm Dan Coise. |
| 0:16.8 | I'm the dad of Harper who is seven and Lyra who is nine. |
| 0:19.8 | I'm Allison Benedict. I'm the mother of Harry who is six even though I said last week he was or last |
| 0:24.8 | episode he was six but now he's actually really six oops |
| 0:28.7 | Sam who is three and Wally who's one. Welcome. Hi, Allison. |
| 0:32.8 | Hey. |
| 0:33.8 | On today's show, we will talk to New York Times, |
| 0:36.0 | your money columnist Ron Leiber, about kids and allowances. |
| 0:39.0 | How soon, how much, and should you make those ungrateful brats work for it. |
| 0:43.0 | Then we'll talk about Disney World's New Fantasyland |
| 0:45.0 | and the Modern Boutique Theme Park experience. |
| 0:47.0 | Plus, Triumph and Fales, A Mommy Wars, Lightning Round, and more. |
| 0:52.0 | We're also launching our Slate Plus Bonus segment this episode. |
| 0:55.0 | Slate Plus members will get a bonus triumph or fail. |
| 0:58.0 | We'll be joined by Slate's deputy editor, John Swanberg, who's got a brand new daughter. |
| 1:01.0 | He is just back from his first bout of paternity leave and he will tell us about a newborn, triumph or fail, and Allison and I will make fun of him or praise him depending. |
| 1:11.0 | Actually what we will do is both quietly thank God that we don't have a newborn. |
| 1:14.8 | To hear that bonus segment, plus bonus segments and all your favorite slate podcast join |
| 1:18.4 | Slate's membership program, Slate Plus. |
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