Mom and Dad Are Fighting: The Vaccinate Your Kids Edition
Listen to Slate’s parenting podcast on how to talk to vaccine resisters and get through snow days.
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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 Seth Mnookin, author of The Panic Virus, about how to deal with vaccine resisters in your midst. Then, our listeners’ best snow day ideas, a call about a willful older brother who won’t stop making the baby cry, and parenting triumphs and fails.
Items discussed in the show:
- Seth Mnookin’s New Yorker piece, “How to Talk to Vaccine Resisters.”
- Melinda Wenner Moyer’s advice for parents of clingy kids, which we talked about in our Slate Plus segment.
Mom and Dad recommend:
Allison recommends Melinda Wenner Moyer’s great advice for understandably freaked out parents of unvaccinated infants and a soon-to-be-released book, After Birth, which Allison has not actually finished reading, but which people either seem to love love love or hate hate hate.
Dan recommends taking your kids to see the Oscar-nominated animated shorts.
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.
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.