What's Under the Bed Edition

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

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Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Carvell Wallace, Rebecca Lavoie, and Gabriel Roth discuss phone etiquette, what to do about a teenage boy's under-bed ephemera, trick or treating, a tough question about a father who doesn't get along with his son, and more.

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:09.8	Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting podcast for Thursday, November 2nd,
0:14.1	though What's Under the Bad Edition.
0:15.7	I'm Gabriel Roth, an editor at Slate, and I am the father of Eliza, who is six years old, and Leo, who is three years old.
0:21.6	I'm Rebecca Lavoie, a digital journalist and podcaster in New Hampshire. And I am mom to Henry,
0:26.8	who is 16, Teddy, who is 14, and my stepdaughter, Lily, who is 17. And I am Carvel Wallace, a father
0:34.1	and writer and podcaster based out in Oakland, California, but today reporting from
0:38.6	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. And I'm the father of Georgia who is 12 and Ezra who is 14.
0:45.3	Today on our show, we have questions from listeners. We have recommendations. On Slate Plus, Rebecca
0:51.2	is going to tell us what happened when a small New Hampshire school district attempted to combat sexual harassment and found their efforts awarded by high school boys.
1:00.1	But first, we have triumphs and fails.
1:02.6	Rebecca, triumph or fail?
1:04.3	I've got to fail.
1:05.6	I have a fail in that I did not take a parenting, teaching opportunity and discussion opportunity that fell into my lap.
1:14.2	I was too much of a frady cat and just avoided it.
1:17.5	So I, last week, as I mentioned, I didn't do any parenting because the boys were with their dad for the first time in a couple of months for the whole week.
1:24.6	So I took the opportunity to do some rearranging in Teddy's room. He had two
1:29.3	twin beds in his room and his room isn't very big. So he had expressed an interest in taking out one of
1:34.7	the twin beds so he would just have a little bit more space. And so I thought he's not here. It's a good
1:39.3	time to do that. So because of the way his room is configured, the twin bed that I took out isn't the one that he was sleeping on, but the one he was sleeping on was in better condition. So I had to move the one he was sleeping on to the other side of the room. And when I did that, I found so much weird and disgusting crap under his bed, like the kind of thing that in most circumstances, you might be like, hey, what are you doing with this?
2:09.3	I'll give you some, like, benign examples of some of the things I've under his bed.
2:13.5	War myself with the benign examples and then we'll move on to the more malign example.
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