The following podcast contains explicit language.

Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcasts for Thursday, November 8th, the Weed Stash Edition.

I'm Gabriel Roth. I'm the editorial director of Slate Podcasts, and I'm the father of Leo, who is four, and Eliza, who is very

nearly eight. I'm Rebecca LaVoy. 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 Carver Wallace, a writer and podcaster in Oakland, California, and I am the father to Georgia who is 13 and Ezra who's 15.

Today on our show, we'll take a question from a listener about castor in Oakland, California, and I am the father to Georgia who is 13 and Ezra who is 15.

Today on our show, we'll take a question from a listener about what to do when your

teenager finds her dad's pot. Plus, as always, we'll have triumphs and fails, we'll have

recommendations, and on Slate Plus, I'm going to ask Carvel and Rebecca for some advice on how to deal with a four-year-old

who goes nuts when he doesn't get his own way. Let's start with triumphs and fails.

Carvel, you want to go first?

I do. Yeah, I don't, you know, I had another situation where I was traveling for work. Again, I had to go back east, and I left on Wednesday night, and then I came back

Tuesday night.

So it was a little under a week, and I texted a lot with the kids and talked to them on the

phone over the time I was gone, but obviously I didn't see them for a week.

But we had this thing where Ezra's teachers staged effectively an intervention. And there's a

reason why I'm not saying if this is a triumph or fail yet, because I don't actually know.

And this was the thing. We got an email from his geometry teacher maybe like a week before I left saying,

like, we'd like to call this conference

because of his grades.

And he isn't technically in threat of losing eligibility

because he goes to an arts high school.

You have to have a certain GPA,

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