A Green Parenting Win

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

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Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

On this episode: Lucy Lopez, Elizabeth Newcamp, and Zak Rosen get into a listener’s question about whether or not to gift a gaming counsel to their college kid. They bought the gift when the kid was doing well in school, but now they’re struggling again. Should that matter?

But first, they share their latest triumphs and fails. Elizabeth is in her Worm Era and explains the wonders of vermicomposting. Then Lucy and Zak commiserate on how they handled some very big feelings from their teen and near-teen. Lucy worries she has become super cringe, while Zak responded to his eight-year-old as if HE was the eight-year-old.

Mentioned in the Episode

The FBI Song from the Banna Slug Stringband

Worm Ohana

I Bought My Kid a Present. Now I’m Having Second Thoughts. - Care and Feeding Column

Podcast production by Cheyna Roth. Video production by Micah Phillips.

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0:00.0	This episode may contain explicit language.
0:08.4	Hey, this is care and feeding.
0:11.1	We're three friends with kids who get together every week to talk life, swap advice, and keep each other sane while we muddle through this weird and wonderful thing called parenting.
0:21.8	I'm Lucy Lopez. I'm mother to two teens. Amelia, who's 15, Avery, who's 13, and we live in
0:28.1	Miami. I'm Elizabeth New Camp. I'm mom to Henry, who's 13, Oliver, who's 11, and Teddy,
0:34.8	who's 9. And we live in Honolulu, Hawaii. I'm Zach Rosen. I am dad to Noah,
0:41.2	who's eight. I'm in his five. I'm Yuki. The puppy who's moaning a little bit. I'm sorry if you hear
0:47.2	her. We are in Detroit. I love it. It's giving off Godfather vibes. We're here to talk about
0:53.4	the ups and downs and everything in between when it comes to parenting.
0:57.0	And today, we've got a listener question about gaming in college.
1:01.8	But first, we're going to share our triumphs and fails.
1:04.6	Elizabeth, I think something, something worm with you today.
1:08.5	I mean, you all got the text message.
1:11.5	You have worms?
1:12.5	Oh, my gosh.
1:13.4	We have worms.
1:14.3	Great diet choice.
1:20.6	Welcome back.
1:21.7	Before we dig into our triumphs and fails, we need your help.
1:24.7	We're putting together a very, very, very special episode for Valentine's Day with our
1:29.4	spouses. And our producer, Shana, is putting together a newlywed game style segment and she wants to know what
1:36.4	kind of questions should she ask us. Please, please be nice. She's also putting together and ask us anything segment with our spouses.
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