Trump is a Very Bad Man Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2016
⏱️ 47 minutes
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On today's show, Allison and Dad talk to parents about raising a transgender child and how to talk to your kids about Trump.
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| 0:00.0 | Mom and Dad are Fighting is brought to you by Bull and Branch.com, offering luxury betting at affordable prices. |
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| 0:09.4 | Get sheets, towels, blankets, duvet covers, and more at BullenBranch.com. |
| 0:13.8 | That's B-O-L-L-L-A-N-D-B-R-A-N-C-H.com, and use the promo code, Mom and Dad. |
| 0:24.5 | And by Club W, leading the grape to glass wine revolution answer just six simple questions at club w.com and their algorithm will create a palette |
| 0:29.3 | profile just for you get wine directly to your door perfectly customized to match your |
| 0:34.5 | taste for 50% off your first order, go to clubbw.com |
| 0:38.6 | slash mom and dad. And by the new middle grade novel, The Terrible 2 Get Worse, the hilarious sequel |
| 0:44.5 | to The Terrible 2, which spent more than 10 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. |
| 0:49.4 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 1:03.3 | Hello, and welcome to mom and dad are fighting, Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday, |
| 1:04.4 | March 17th. |
| 1:06.6 | The Trump is a very bad man edition. |
| 1:28.9 | I'm Alison Benedict, an editor at Slate, and the mom of Harry 7, Sam 5, and Wally 3. I'm Dan Kuis. I'm also an editor at Slate, and I am the dad of Lyra, who is 10, and Harper, who is 8. Hey, Dan. Hey. Thanks for doing the show without me last week. I missed you so much. On today's show, we'll talk to parents Hillary and Jeff Whittington about raising a transgender child. |
| 1:35.5 | Then they said it shouldn't be done, but we're doing it anyway. We're going to talk about the election on a parenting podcast. |
| 1:42.7 | Specifically, we're going to talk about how to talk to your kids about Trump with New York Times TV critic James Ponawozic. |
| 1:45.4 | Also, parenting triumphs and fails, a listener call about photo releases for kids, and for our Slate Plus segment, Slate Designer Derek Johnson |
| 1:50.7 | will join us to reveal pre-parenting triumphs or fails. But first, Dan. |
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| 2:04.1 | What do you get out of it? |
| 2:06.1 | You can get links to our recommendations. |
| 2:07.9 | You can yell at us for saying rude things on the air. |
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