Too Cool For School Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2018
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Carvell Wallace, Rebecca Lavoie, and Gabriel Roth interview Ann Hulbert, author of Off the Charts: The Hidden Lives and Lessons of American Child Prodigies, and take a question from a listener with daddy problems.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:09.0 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting for Thursday, January 18th, the Too Cool for School Edition. |
| 0:14.7 | I'm Gabriel Roth. I'm an editor at Slate, and I'm the father of Eliza, who's seven years old, and Leo, who is three. |
| 0:21.3 | I'm Rebecca Lavoie. I'm a journalist and podcaster in New Hampshire, and I'm Mom to Henry, who is 16, Teddy, who will be 15 next week, and my stepdaughter, Lily, who is 17. And I'm Carval Wallace, a writer and podcaster in Oakland, California, and I'm the father to Georgia, who is 12 and Ezra who is 14. |
| 0:38.5 | Today on our show, we're going to be talking to Anne Holbert, the author of a in California, and I am the father to Georgia who is 12 and Ezra, who is 14. |
| 0:38.5 | Today on our show, we're going to be talking to Anne Holbert, the author of a new book about |
| 0:42.5 | child prodigies. |
| 0:43.8 | She's going to talk to us about extraordinary children and their extraordinary accomplishments |
| 0:48.5 | and what happens next and about what those prodigies can tell us about raising ordinary children. |
| 0:55.1 | We also have a question from a listener whose two-year-old son is constantly pushing his father |
| 0:59.4 | away and saying, no daddy. |
| 1:01.1 | This one ripped me to my core. |
| 1:04.6 | In addition, we will have tramps and fails. |
| 1:07.3 | We'll have recommendations. |
| 1:09.0 | And on Slate Plus, Rebecca and I will grill Carvel about his |
| 1:13.8 | new job as an advice columnist. But let's start with triumphs and fails. Rebecca, would you like to go |
| 1:22.4 | first? Yeah. I had a really interesting experience this weekend where my son Teddy was potentially like in a lot of trouble. |
| 1:33.0 | And I kind of, I'm going to call this a triumph because I dug really deep and just really tried to tap into what I remember about being his age and sort of was able to kind of like turn |
| 1:47.0 | the situation around a little bit. So he had his performances of his school play this weekend and |
| 1:51.7 | it all went great. And it's the first time he's ever been in a cast. It's the first time he's |
| 1:56.2 | ever been in a musical or play. And if either one of you have ever been in performances like this, you know that |
| 2:03.4 | when it's over, there is this like real, like emotional psychic, like let down. A lot of kids get |
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