Mom and Dad Are Fighting: The Two Truths and a Lie Edition
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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 Meghan Moravcik Walbert, writer of the Foster Parent Diary on the New York Times’ Motherlode blog. Then, Jessica Lahey, author of The Gift of Failure, joins the show to discuss encouraging kids to help out around the house—even if they make a mess. Plus, listeners’ suggestions for how to ask your kids about their day (without actually asking) and parenting triumphs and fails.
This week on Slate Plus, Slate politics editor Will Dobson shares a wife-keeping-her-maiden-name fail.
Items discussed in the show:
- Meghan Moravcik Walbert’s Foster Parent Diary on the New York Times’ Motherlode blog
- The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed by Jessica Lahey
- “The Value of a Mess” by Jessica Lahey in Slate
Also, here is an important video of the dog wedding that recently occurred inside Slate’s New York office, despite Allison’s children’s disbelief:
Mom and Dad recommend:
Allison recommends this Paper Jamz guitar, which plays “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” by Blue Oyster Cult.
Dan recommends his family’s original game, Ace of Hates. Here’s a deck of cards you can play it with.
This week’s advertiser is Frank Einstein and the BrainTurbo, the third installment in the hilarious, best-selling children’s book series filled with inventions, science experiments, and baseball-playing robots, by author Jon Scieszka and mad scientist illustrator Brian Biggs. Frank Einstein and the BrainTurbo is on sale now from Amulet Books.
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Podcast produced by Ann Heppermann. Our intern is Jessie Chasan-Taber.