Mom and Dad Are Fighting: Your Own Personal Fantasyland Edition
Slate’s parenting podcast on Disney World, allowances for kids, and hot topics from the Mommy Wars.
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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 New York Times personal finance columnist Ron Lieber about kids’ allowances: when to start, how much to give, and whether to make those ungrateful monsters work for it. Then Dan and Allison discuss the new Fantasyland at Walt Disney World and the way it signals a transformation of the theme park experience for kids and parents. Plus: a Mommy Wars lightning round, recommendations, and a particularly terrible fail from Dan.
Items discussed in the show:
- Ron Lieber on NPR discussing allowances for kids
- Ron Lieber’s forthcoming book, The Opposite of Spoiled
- Dan Kois in Slate on Disney World’s New Fantasyland
Mom and Dad recommend:
Allison recommends “The Sad Parents of Gamergate” on the Awl and, generally, parents talking to teenage gamers about Gamergate.
Dan recommends watching seasons 2 through 9 of The Simpsons with your kids.
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