You Drive, You Pay Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
On this week’s episode: Dan, Jamilah, and Elizabeth argue about if teenage drivers should chip in for the privilege of driving, especially when the teen in question is not making a ton of money. Then they jump into a couple’s argument over swearing in front of the kids.
In Slate Plus: It’s the classic debate. Oatmeal raisin v. chocolate chip cookies. Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on MADAF each week, and no ads. Sign up now to listen and support our work.
Recommendations:
Elizabeth recommends Prodigies online music lessons.
Jamilah recommends Sabai Design.
Dan recommends If I Ran the Circus by Dr. Seuss.
More Jamilah!:
Slate Live’s Wild and Wise
Join us on Facebook and email us at momanddad@slate.com to ask us new questions, tell us what you thought of today’s show, and give us ideas about what we should talk about in future episodes.
Podcast produced by Rosemary Belson.
Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Podcasts get automatic access—no setup required.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is for parents. Maybe not for kids. |
| 0:05.8 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, March 4th, |
| 0:11.0 | the U-Drive, You-Pay edition. I'm Dan Cois. I'm a writer at Slate in the author of the book |
| 0:16.0 | How to Be a Family. I'm the dad of Lyra, who's 15, and Harper, who's 13, and we live in Harlington, Virginia. |
| 0:23.1 | I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, contributor to Slate's care and feeding parenting column, |
| 0:28.5 | co-host of Slate's Wild and Wise Talk Show, and Mom to Naima, who is just about eight, |
| 0:36.8 | and we live in Los Angeles, California. |
| 0:39.4 | I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. |
| 0:40.6 | I write the homeschool and family travel blog Dutch Dutch goose, and I'm the mom to three littles, |
| 0:45.4 | Henry who's eight, Oliver who's six, and Teddy who's four. |
| 0:49.1 | And for only eight more weeks, I am calling Navar, Florida home. |
| 0:53.8 | It's a big move coming up. |
| 0:55.7 | I cannot wait for you to just start sending the legal weed to everyone on the show. |
| 1:00.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:00.3 | On your new home of Colorado. |
| 1:01.9 | All right, on today's episode, hey, your kid just got their driver's license. |
| 1:06.2 | Congratulations to everyone. |
| 1:08.0 | Now, how much should you be charging them for gas and insurance, especially |
| 1:12.3 | if they're not really making any money on their own? Then we're going to jump right into the |
| 1:16.8 | middle of a couple's debate about whether or not it's okay to curse around your kids. |
| 1:22.0 | Finally, on Slate Plus, we are discussing the debate that tore Slate Parenting Facebook apart oatmeal cookies. |
| 1:30.8 | Are they bullshit? |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Slate Audio, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Slate Audio and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.