Carvell Wallace, Dan Kois, and Katherine Goldstein discuss calendar fails, the mundane unfairness of paying for day care with a health savings account, and how and when to teach kids to clean up after themselves. Plus, listener questions about dealing with a chauvinist grandpa and how and when to talk to your kids about a conspicuous Confederate flag on the side of the interstate.
In the Slate Plus segment, the panelists discuss the things they learned on their family vacations this year.
Recommendations:
Katherine recommends the Dear Sugars podcast episode “Talking About Privilege—With Catrice M. Jackson”
Dan recommends Stephen King
Carvell recommends the book Ocean Meets Sky by Terry Fan
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Podcast produced by Benjamin Frisch.
