The following podcast contains explicit language.

Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting for Thursday, December 14th, the Your Child is

Made of Meat edition.

I'm Gabriel Roth.

I'm an editor at Slate, and I'm the father of Leo, who is three years old, and Eliza, who is seven.

I'm Rebecca Lavoie. I'm a journalist and podcaster living in New Hampshire. And I am Mom DeHenry, who is 16. Teddy, who is 14. And I am Carvel Wallace, a writer and podcaster out in Oakland, California. And I am father to Georgia, who is 12, and Ezra, who is 14.

Today on our show, we'll be talking to Slate Technology writer April Glazer about Periscope,

the live streaming web service where she found that young girls are being swarmed with inappropriate requests from other users.

We've also got a question from a listener whose daughter is the only girl her age in her small rural school.

Plus, as always, we'll have triumphs and fails.

We'll have recommendations.

On Slate Plus, Rebecca will tell us a little bit about how she's coping with the difficult outcome of her triumph this week, which is where we're going to start.

Triumphs and fails. Rebecca, you have a triumph. What is it? Yeah, I got a big one, although I can't

take 100% credit for it or maybe even 10% credit for it, but it's just so exciting that I have to

tell you guys. Yesterday was a snow day.

And so the boys were home.

I came to work.

And my son Henry called me at work in the afternoon and said, mom.

And I said, yes.

And he said, I just got a phone call from Senator Shaheen's office.

I'm going to be a Senate page in Washington, D.C. this spring.

So he is going to D.C. in a few weeks.

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