“You need to teach them before you are ready to teach them. Because the fact that you are not ready to teach them means they're vulnerable to finding out from someone else.”
Tom Price and Stuart Goldsmith return to compare parenting notes with Olly, their sons now having reached the age of 10½.
Up for discussion: how to make friends with your kids’ parents, the dangers of ‘backdoor’ YouTube exposure, and the challenges of coping with impromptu sex education...
Plus, the appealing fraternity of teenage skateboarding, the toxicity of ‘Jordan and Salish’, and the big question of the Summer: should they make their kids try for grammar school?
This is the twelfth instalment of our annual ‘How To Be A Dad’ series. Catch up with all previous episodes HERE.
🎧Tom’s podcast is My Mate Bought A Toaster; and Stuart’s is The Comedian’s Comedian. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
🎤 Stuart's show "Canary" is at the Edinburgh Fringe from 17-30th of August, then on tour.
📖 "You Know, Sex" by Cory Silverberg is out now
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Meanwhile, in The Zeitgeist, Ollie Peart heads to Olly’s house to cook up some BBQ barnstormers: ‘Swicy’ Korean Chicken Burgers, Gochujang Wagyu, and Logan Moffitt’s viral cucumber salad.
What are the flavour trends making their way on to our menus this Summer? And can Olly’s Ninja FlexFlame compete with a charcoal barbeque?
🫕 Check out all of Ollie’s recipe’s here.
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Elsewhere, down the Foxhole, Alix Fox assists a listener who wants to know how to keep sex fun.
Why is laughter a bedroom taboo? And how can you lighten the mood whilst staying sexy?
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Finally, our record of the month is ‘Nosedive’ by Man/Woman/Chainsaw, out now 👇
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We’ll see you with something new on 10th August!
x Olly, Ollie, Alix and Producer Matt
