Mom and Dad Are Fighting

Mom and Dad Are Fighting: The “Bureaucratic Nightmare” Edition

Slate’s parenting podcast talks to a mother who saw her teen through a mental breakdown, and more.

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On this week’s episode, Rebecca, Carvell, and Gabe talk to Andee Brown, a Bay Area mother whose teenage son has been struggling with mental illness. (If you or a family member is going through something similar, help is available from the National Alliance on Mental Illness.) Then, a call from a mother who wants to know whether to try to adopt a second child while she fights cancer. Plus: parenting triumphs and fails, recommendations, and more.

Recommendations:

  • Carvell (and his daughter Georgia) recommend Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper.
  • Gabe recommends the Osmo game system.
  • Rebecca recommends making a list of must-see movies and watching it with your kids.
  • On Slate Plus, Slate director of technology Greg Lavallee recommends the children’s bikes from Islabikes.

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 talk about in future episodes. Got questions that you’d like us to answer? Call and leave us a message at 424-255-7833.

Podcast produced by Benjamin Frisch.