Welcome to the Gun Show Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2017
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Rebecca Lavoie, Carvell Wallace, and Gabriel Roth discuss what to do about a child's growing interest in guns, having two children versus one, plus their Triumphs and Fails, and recommendations.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:08.6 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday, June 22nd. |
| 0:13.7 | The Welcome to the Gun Show edition. |
| 0:15.5 | I'm Gabriel Roth, an editor at Slate and the dad of Eliza H six, and Leo, who is just about to turn three. |
| 0:22.4 | I'm Rebecca Lavoie. I'm a podcaster living in New Hampshire. I'm the mother of Henry, |
| 0:26.5 | who is almost 16, Teddy, who is 14, and my stepdaughter, Lily, who is 17. |
| 0:32.3 | And I am Carvel Wallace, a freelance writer living in Oakland, and I am the father of Georgia, who is 11, and Ezra, who is 14. |
| 0:41.7 | I am thrilled to be back on the podcast with you guys this week, thanks to the miracle of antibiotics. |
| 0:46.5 | This week's episode of Mom and Dad are Fighting is dedicated to antibiotics. |
| 0:50.3 | Thank you, antibiotics for everything you've done. |
| 0:52.3 | And lenient doctors, right? |
| 0:53.4 | And easygoing doctors |
| 0:54.8 | who are going to make it so that our children someday will never know the miracle of antibiotics. |
| 1:01.0 | This week, we've got a question from a listener who doesn't know how to talk to her four-year-old about guns |
| 1:06.5 | and another who is wondering when's the right time to have a second child. |
| 1:14.4 | Of course, we will also have triumphs and fails and recommendations. |
| 1:22.0 | And then in Slate Plus, Rebecca has some exciting family news that is too personal to share with the wider public if you want to know. |
| 1:22.6 | I'm not pregnant. |
| 1:25.0 | Wow, what a tease. |
| 1:27.4 | Now you've given it away. |
| 1:28.5 | You've given it away. |
| 1:29.9 | Now you've lost all the listeners. |
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