Mom and Dad Are Fighting

Parenting advice from Slate.

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About the Show

Jamilah Lemieux and Dan Kois share triumphs and fails and offer advice on parenting kids from toddler to teens.

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Mom and Dad Are Fighting: Birthday Parties and Birthday Suits Edition

Slate’s parenting podcast helps a mom whose husband thinks the kids are too old for shared family nudity.

Suburban Appropriation Edition

Slate’s parenting podcast helps a parent who is hesitant about joining a problematic local community event.

Mom and Dad Are Fighting: Wrap It Up Edition

Slate’s parenting podcast helps a mom who is freaking about her teen asking for condoms.

Mom and Dad Are Fighting Bonus: How to Be a Family Edition

A very special bonus episode about Dan’s journey around the world and his new book.

Back to Work and Back to School Edition

Slate’s parenting podcast helps a mom who is freaking out (just a little) about going back to work.

Bittersweet Edition

Slate’s parenting podcast helps an auntie decide if her instincts are right about a traumatic experience.

Am I a Spoiled Brat? Edition

Slate’s parenting podcast helps a mom decide if she is expecting too much from Grandma.

Favorite Grandma Edition

Slate’s parenting podcast helps a mom decide whether she should limit her kid’s time with Granny.

Mom and Dad Are Fighting: EuroTrip Edition

Slate’s parenting podcast helps a mom decide if she should let her teenager go on a trip across Europe.

What’s Up With All Those Nannies? Edition

Slate’s parenting podcast helps a mom struggling to understand if nannies are ruining society.

Playground Beer Edition

Slate’s parenting podcast helps an introverted dad trying to figure out how to raise a social kid and parents struggling with their local evangelical university.

Exclusive Besties Edition

Slate’s parenting podcast on little friends getting a bit too close and teaching your kids about racial slurs.

Mom and Dad Are Fighting: Carpool Liability Waiver Edition

Slate’s parenting podcast answers listener questions from a mom who wants some guarantees before carpooling and a child-free friend who doesn’t want to overstep.

Mom and Dad Are Fighting: Fish and Candy Edition

Slate’s parenting podcast on bonding with a new sort-of stepson and dealing with calorie-counting kids.

What’s Up With Your Boyfriend?

Slate’s parenting podcast answers listener questions about moms struggling with live-in boyfriends and kids being left out in the dark after a play date.

Mom and Dad Are Fighting: Teen in Need Edition

Slate’s parenting podcast advises a teen in need of some advice for their sensitive mom and a mom worried about the privilege of princess dress-up.

Mom and Dad Are Fighting: Don’t Forget Grandpa Edition

Slate’s parenting podcast on helping kids remember a beloved grandparent after he’s gone.

Mom and Dad Are Fighting: Bed, Bath, and Biting Edition

Slate’s parenting podcast answers listener questions about biting cousins and kids against baths.

Mom and Dad Are Fighting: The Dan Kois Returns Edition

Slate’s parenting podcast advises a parent whose kid won’t do anything. Plus: What’s the deal with siblings?

Mom and Dad Are Fighting: Pollen Prank Edition

What really matters in parenting anyway?