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In this week’s parenting podcast, Slate editors Allison Benedikt and Dan Kois talk to Belle Boggs about her new book, The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood. Then elementary school teacher Matt Dicks joins us to answer listener questions about back-to-school season. Plus parenting triumphs and fails, recommendations, and a listener call about marital strife.
This week on Slate Plus, Slate deputy editor John Swansburg reveals if his recent run-in with a puppeteer babysitter was a triumph or fail.
Items discussed on the show:
- “No One Ever Just Adopts,” by Belle Boggs
- “Visible Life,” by Belle Boggs
- “What Infertility Really Feels Like,” also by Belle Boggs!
Dan recommends that mothers and daughters watch Gilmore Girls together.
Allison recommends those special tennis balls for kids. They will help your kids hit the ball and also help your kids not yell at you for not hitting to them exactly as they want you to.
This week’s advertisers are Money Mind (a new podcast from Prudential), Blue Apron, and Casper.
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Podcast produced by Efim Shapiro.
