Listen to Mom and Dad Are Fighting by clicking the arrow on the audio player below:
Subscribe in iTunes ∙ RSS feed ∙ Download ∙ Play in another tab
In this week’s edition of Slate’s parenting podcast Mom and Dad Are Fighting, Slate vice chairman Dan Check and editor Dan Kois and talk to Andrew Solomon about gay and lesbian parenting in the wake of the Supreme Court’s historic decision. Then, parenting advice: Why is it so easy to give, but so hard to take? Plus, triumphs and fails, and Dan and Dan answer a listener’s question about the ideal age difference between children.
This week on Slate Plus, we talk with editor in chief of Slate Julia Turner about her latest parenting fail … or is it a triumph?
Items discussed in the show:
- “Don’t Think of a White Bear: Andrew Solomon on the Hidden Joy of Gay Parenting” in the New Statesman
- “Why Parenting Advice Is So Hard to Take” by Kim Brooks in New York magazine’s the Cut
- “What’s the Ideal Age Gap Between Children?” by Lisa Flam for Today
- “Influences on Sibling Relationships” by D.H. Sailor
- “Best Age Gap Between Siblings?” from the National Children’s Trust
- The Book With No Pictures by B.J. Novak
- Civil War videos in Lego style, for kids!
Dad and Dad recommend:
Dan Kois recommends Ask Me written by Bernard Waber and illustrated by Suzy Lee for reading with new readers.
Dan Check recommends Brad Meltzer’s I Am series, which includes titles such as I Am Amelia Earhart.
This week’s advertiser is Little Passports. Keep your kids busy this summer with Little Passports, the award-winning subscription for kids. Right now, Mom and Dad Are Fighting listeners can save 40 percent on their first month today with promo code MOMANDDAD40. Learn more at LittlePassports.com/MomandDad.
Follow us on Facebook and 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.
And finally: Come to Outward Live at City Winery in New York City on July 13 with special guests Ted Allen and Evan Wolfson!
Podcast produced by Ann Heppermann. Our intern is Jessie Chasan-Taber.