A Tooth Fairy Fail

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

Slate Podcasts

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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On this episode: Slate senior producer Cheyna Roth joins Zak Rosen and Elizabeth Newcamp to debate wedding ceremony etiquette. A listener’s kid is the flower girl at a friend’s wedding. But now it turns out the flower girl is NOT invited to the wedding reception. Is this fair? They dig into whether kids make a wedding better, logistics, and more. But first, in another edition of Triumphs and Fails, Cheyna deals with a week-long bus cancellation, Elizabeth celebrates a big birthday, and Zak has to deal with Tooth Fairy fallout. Mentioned In the Episode: Who Owns the Tooth Fairy? - Decoder Ring Join us on Facebook and email us at [email protected] to ask us new questions, tell us what you thought of today’s show, and give us ideas about what we should talk about in future episodes. You can also call our phone line: (646) 357-9318. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get to hang out with us on the Plus Playground every week for a whole additional grab-bag of content — and you’ll get an ad-free experience across the network. And you’ll also be supporting the work we do here on Care and Feeding. Sign up now at slate.com/careplus – or try it out on Apple Podcasts. Listen to Opportunity Gap wherever you get your podcasts: ⁠⁠https://lnk.to/opportunitygapPS!careandfeeding⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode may contain explicit language.
0:06.7	Welcome to Karen Feeding.
0:08.2	We're here to talk about the ups, downs, and everything in between when it comes to parenting.
0:13.5	I'm Elizabeth Newkamp.
0:14.8	I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch goose.
0:17.6	I'm the mom to Henry who's 13, Oliver who's 11, and Teddy who's 9.
0:21.7	We are currently in Atlanta, Georgia. I'm Zach Rosen. I make another podcast. It's called The Best
0:27.3	Advice Show. And I'm Dad to Noah, who's 8, and Ami, who's 5. We live in Detroit.
0:32.1	I'm Shana Roth. I am a senior producer at Slate. I am the new producer of care and feeding, and I've also bopped around to a lot of different shows across the Slate network in hosting and producing capacities.
0:45.2	I am a mother of a five-and-a-half-year-old daughter and telling Elizabeth and Zach this for the first time, I'm actually pregnant.
0:53.9	I am. Oh, my God'm actually pregnant. I am.
0:55.0	Oh, my God.
0:56.3	Sheena.
0:57.6	What a reveal.
1:00.3	This is real.
1:01.0	Thank you.
1:01.3	I was, it's fake.
1:02.8	I've been needing to tell you guys because, you know.
1:05.6	This is, I mean, the best time.
1:06.8	How pregnant are you?
1:10.7	17 and a half-ish weeks.
1:12.5	I don't know, like four months-ish.
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