Elise Hu on Sharks, Cheeseburgers, and Raising Kids Abroad
In this episode, Elise Hu gets personal. Tune in for her dad’s refugee story involving sharks, the unique challenges of parenting a tall girl, what she ate in childbirth, and a 3rd grade disappointmen...
17 Sep 202538min
LST FAVES: The Mortality of Motherhood
NPR’s Kelly McEvers compares and contrasts childbirth vs being a war correspondent. ⭐️ This episode originally ran on July 25, 2013, with an update on June 13, 2016, and is a favorite from the archiv...
10 Sep 202535min
It's a Real Mother, Part 6: We've Solved It, Right?
Eight years after It’s a Real Mother, our series on discrimination against working moms, Brigid Schulte returns to share how we’ve conquered the motherhood penalty! Just kidding, it’s still alive and ...
3 Sep 202536min
LST FAVES: It's A Real Mother, Part 2: Ideal Worker
Why do stock images of working moms look frazzled, while stock images of working dads just look like... guys at work? Author Brigid Schulte gets to the heart of why discrimination against working moms...
27 Aug 202540min
Katz BACK in the Cradle
Eight years ago, Matt Katz came on the show after nervously revealing to his 5-year-old daughter that the man she thought was his biological father was not, in fact, his biological father. But Matt wo...
20 Aug 202550min
LST FAVES: Katz in the Cradle
Matt Katz is known for his fearless reporting on New Jersey governor Chris Christie. But when it comes to telling his 5-year-old daughter the truth about his dad... well, that freaks him out. In today...
13 Aug 202546min
A Very Vaginal Voyage with Rachel Gross
Join us for a deep (and delightfully nerdy) dive into the misunderstood world of vaginas, where we’ll learn about orgasm-chasing royalty, clitoral wingspans, vagina lollipops, wandering wombs — and th...
6 Aug 202539min
LST FAVES: Mama Don't Understand
A game of got-yer-nose turns racial and a 6-year-old raps to her white mom about not getting her Blackness. Two stories of biracial kids schooling their mamas. ⭐️ This episode originally ran on Fri, ...
30 Juli 202538min
