The following podcast contains explicit language.

Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, December 20th.

The Time is My Co-Parent Edition.

I'm Gabriel Roth.

I am the editorial director of Slate Podcasts, and I'm the father of Eliza H8, and Leo, who is four. I'm Rebecca Levoy. I'm a journalist and podcaster in New Hampshire, and I am mom to Henry, who is 17, Teddy, who is 15 and a half, and my stepdaughter Lily, who is 18. And I'm Carval Wallace, a writer and podcaster in Oakland, California, and I'm the father to Georgia who was 13, and Ezra, who is 15.

Today on our show, we have a question from a listener whose wife's ex-wife is being a little difficult about how he's captioning his Facebook posts.

Plus, as always, we will share triumphs and fails. We will make recommendations. And on Slate Plus, Rebecca is going to explain one of her problems with the college admissions process. Why didn't her children apply early decision? Find out on our Slate Plus segment today. Let's start with Triumphs and Fails.

Rebecca, do you want to go first?

Do you want to triumph?

Do you want to fail? What do you want to do? I'm going to fail, and I know that you guys covered this last week, but I wasn't here. And excuse me, I'm going to break one of my self-imposed rules of not swearing in the first five minutes of a podcast. podcast. I didn't know that was a rule.

I had no idea that was a rule. No, no.

It's just it-imposed rule.

No, no, it's just, it's something I try not to do because I imagine like the person who's listening to me for the very first time. Like, if the very first thing that comes out of my mouth is I broke my fucking leg guys. Like they may never like want to listen to this podcast again. But that's my fail is I broke my fucking leg.

And it sucks.

It totally sucks.

How did you break your leg? I was on, well, you mean before I called you from lying on

the ground with my broken leg? How did it happen? I know why. I'm asking you so that you can

tell it to the listeners at home. It's a kind of convention. It's a kind of convention of podcasting. We're doing content for the people.

Yeah. It's not just us having a chat. Do you know there are people listening to us now?

Apparently not because I just said fuck in the first five minutes of the podcast.

So I had a morning off because I work, as you know,

in public radio and I was, we were in the middle of a fun drive and I'd been pitching shifts

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