What to Expect When You're Unexpectedly the First Lady Edition

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🗓️ 7 July 2016

⏱️ 51 minutes

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On today's show Dan Kois and Allison Benedikt discuss how to talk to your kids about weight and Dan interviews the soon-to-be First Lady of Iceland. Mom and Dad Are Fighting is brought to you by Boll and Branch. Get 20% off your entire order, plus free shipping, by going to BollandBranch.com and using promo code momanddad. And by the new podcast Dog Smarts. Each episode features leading researchers and academics that tackle questions of language, memory, intelligence, and even love as they pertain to our dogs. Subscribe to Dog Smarts on iTunes now. And by Little Passports. Inspire your kids to learn about the world with a subscription to Little Passports. Save 40% on your first month today with promo code momanddad. Learn more at littlepassports.com/momanddad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.2	Hello and welcome to mom and dad are fighting.
0:11.2	Hello and welcome to mom and dad are fighting.
0:13.0	Slate's parenting podcast for July 7, 2016,
0:17.0	The What to Expect when you're unexpectedly the First Lady
0:19.8	edition.
0:20.7	I'm Dan Coates.
0:21.5	I'm an editor at Slate. I'm the dad of Lyra who's 11 and Harper who is 8.
0:26.0	And I'm Allison Benedict also an editor at Slate and the mom of Harry who is 7, Sam five, and Wally three.
0:33.6	Hello.
0:34.7	Hello, I can't wait to hear your interview
0:36.8	with Michelle Obama.
0:38.1	I know, it's going to be really amazing.
0:39.8	On today's show, we will talk to Dr. Catherine Steiner Adair.
0:43.0	She's a clinical psychologist and the author of the Big Disconnect about body image and
0:47.6	tween girls.
0:48.8	Then, a few months ago, Eliza Reed was a writer and editor in Iceland with a mild-mannered
0:53.8	professor husband and four kids and then her husband decided to run for president, and then he
0:58.2	won. So I talked to Iceland's new First Lady elect about her family's wild ride.
1:03.6	Plus, Triumph and Fales, a listener question about pro bono work that you don't agree with
1:09.6	as a mom and more.
1:11.6	But first, Allison, take it away.
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