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This week, Claire and Quinn are joined by Congressman Chris Deluzio (PA-17). He's a dad of four, Navy vet, and member of the Armed Services Committee, but today he's here to talk about the thing that's making every sports parent insane: private equity buying up youth sports and ruining it for everyone.

His bill, the Let Kids Play Act, aims to boot the vulture investors and funnel their fines back into rec leagues. They also get into military family mental health, the case for and against a fourth kid, and whether Mike Tomlin ever delivered a Papa John's pizza to Chuck Noll.

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• Call your reps to support the Let Kids Play Act https://www.whatcanido.earth/action/let-kids-play-act

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This week, Claire and Quinn are joined by Chabeli Carrazana, economy and childcare reporter at The 19th and author of their Mom Guilt Economy newsletter.

She's the only reporter in the country (that we know of) with "economy and childcare" in her title, which tells you everything you need to know about how seriously this country takes childcare.

They discuss the vortex of baby products, why you're uniquely vulnerable to being sold things when you're sleep-deprived and terrified, and what's actually changing (and not changing) in childcare policy.

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This week, Claire and Quinn are joined by Melissa Walker, a YA novelist and Principal Strategist of Giving Circles at The States Project. The chat about having teen girls and the drama of borrowed clothes, the art of playing it cool with your suddenly communicative teenager, boys reading "girl books", and why the most important elections you've never heard of are happening right now in your state house.

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This week, Claire and Quinn discuss school dances: from homecoming (HoCo, if you're under 25) to promposals, pantsing, and cotillion boards. Tune in to learn about how school dances have changed over the years (they keep the lights on now?) and for Quinn and Claire's prom photos.

Also discussed: murder houses, the IVF closet, father-daughter dances, and tie-tying.

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This week, Claire and Quinn sit down with writer Kathryn Jezer-Morton.

She grew up on a commune, writes the column Brooding for The Cut, and just published a book called The Story of Your Life: How Social Media Shapes the Way We Experience Everything.

They discuss kids running away, phone surveillance, Ozempic for rush, promposals, whether sharing Instagram Reels with your kid counts as affection and quality time, Kanye, and what they're watching with their kids.

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This week, Claire and Quinn react to Michelle Obama's viral week on the internet that broke the mom discourse in half. Also discussed: biological warfare (on audiobook), cicadas in the house, a broken bed jet remote, laundry as a consequence, and whether you can be the bad cop and still get invited to watch the Dodgers game with your kid at 10 pm.

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This week, Quinn and Claire discuss Lego sets for adults, Dolly Parton's canonization timeline, Tim Curry, Bill Gates and Epstein, AI in the classroom, who's actually a good person and how to explain that to kids who don't want the nuance, E. Jean Carroll, José Andrés, Olivia Rodrigo doing something impactful at 22, and whether you can just let your kids cheer for the Dodgers without explaining who owns them. (Turns out you can't, but you can try).

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We survived summer break! Claire spent 10 days trekking through Sweden and Quinn is back from the Outer Banks for two weeks with seven children, not all his. They catch up on the summer and then get into surviving the back-to-school gauntlet.

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• Check out the guided all-women hiking trips through Sweden https://talesandtrails.se/

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It's the last week in our Summer Rewind! We'll have a brand new episode for you next week, but until then, please enjoy this episode about somehow maintaining a relationship with your co-parent despite all the chaos.

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This week, Claire and Quinn tackle the brutal summer heat while diving into the complexities of maintaining a relationship with your co-parent. Finding couple time when everyone just wants to retreat to their separate corners is an eternal struggle, especially when you're balancing getting body-shamed by your own children and finding out your kid has been playing inappropriate games online.

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It's still August, which means we're still on summer break, which means we have another fan favorite episode for you to catch up on!

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This week, Quinn and Claire are diving into the ever-evolving world of childcare, from the brutal economics of quality care to the desperate measures parents take just to keep working.

They explore how childcare standards change from first kid (extensive vetting) to third kid (you haven't murdered recently), the impossible summer camp lottery system, and why sometimes a random college student willing to be a "play robot" is an essential worker.

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