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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.

I'm Rebecca Laveoy.

I'm a journalist and podcaster in New Hampshire and I'm Rebecca Laveoy. I'm a journalist and

podcaster in New Hampshire and I am Mom to Henry who is 16,

Teddy who will be 15 next week and my stepdaughter Lily who is 17.

And I'm Carvel Wallace, a writer in

in a podcaster in Oakland, California, and I am the father to Georgia, who is 12, and

Ezra who is 14.

Today on our show, we're going to be talking to Ann Halbert, the author of a new book about

child prodigies.

She's going to talk to us about extraordinary children and their extraordinary

accomplishments and what happens next and about what those prodigies can tell us about raising ordinary children.

We also have a question from a listener whose two-year-old son is constantly pushing his father

away and saying no daddy.

This one ripped me to my core in addition we will have tramps and

fails we'll have recommendations and on slate plus Rebecca and I will grill

carvel about his new job as an advice columnist.

But let's start with Triumph and Fails.

Rebecca, would you like to go first? Yeah, I had a really interesting experience this weekend where my son Teddy was potentially like in a lot of trouble and 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 the situation around a little bit. So he had his performances of his

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