Mom and Dad Are Fighting: The Call Your Mom Edition
Listen to Slate’s parenting podcast on how to raise generous kids and calling your mom.
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In this week’s edition of Slate’s parenting podcast Mom and Dad Are Fighting, Slate editors Allison Benedikt and Dan Kois talk to Ron Lieber, author of the new book, The Opposite of Spoiled, about how to raise generous kids. Then, we take J.K. Simmons’ Oscar advice and call our moms. Plus, a listener asks about play date etiquette, and parenting triumphs and fails.
Items discussed in the show:
- “You’re Doing Allowance Wrong,” by Ron Lieber in Slate.
- J.K. Simmons’ Oscar acceptance speech.
Mom and Dad recommend:
Allison recommends that you hate-watch The Slap [insert slap sound here] and then write in to explain to Allison why she likes it.
Dan recommends “The George Washington Game,” described in this New York Times piece.
This week’s advertisers are:
- The chapter book The Terrible Two by Jory John and Mac Barnett, illustrated by Kevin Cornell.
- Little Passports, the monthly subscription for kids. Use promo code FIGHT40 to save 40 percent on your first month.
- Bluum, a monthly box of goodies for parents and kids, from pregnancy to preschool. Use promo code MOMDAD for 40 percent off the first month of all monthly, 3-, 6- and 12- month plans.
Email us at momanddad@slate.com to tell us what you thought of today’s show and give us ideas for what we should cover in the next edition. Got questions that you’d like us to answer on a future episode? Call and leave us a message at 424-255-7833.
Podcast produced by Ann Hepperman.