This episode may contain explicit language.

Welcome to Karen Feeding, the show that's as honest and messy as parenting itself.

I'm Zach Rosen. I make another show. It's called Weirdly Helpful. I am dad to Noah who's eight,

and Ami, who's five. We live in Detroit. I'm Elizabeth New Camp. I write a homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch, Dutch, goose. I'm the mom to Henry who's 13, Oliver who's 11, and Teddy who's 9. We live in Honolulu, Hawaii. Hey, I'm Lucy Lopez. I do another podcast as well, the Mamasita Rica. I'm mother to Amelia,

who's 15, Avery who's 13, and we live in Miami. And we are three friends with kids who meet up

every week to talk about our lives, offer advice, and generally just try to support each other

through this wild thing called parenting. All right. Today we're talking about lighthouse parenting.

Are you guys familiar with lighthouse parenting?

I was not until you sent that article around.

All right.

Well, it's a style of parenting that's been around for a bit, but I think a lot of people

haven't really heard of it.

It's not talked about very much.

But there's a new book out about it.

And of course, that means everybody's talking about it.

We are going to talk about what lighthouse parenting is.

Do we like it?

But more than that, we're also going to talk about the seemingly endless stream of parenting styles and whether we should just get rid of them all.

And after that, we're actually going to recommend our favorite parenting books.

Elizabeth got asked for her recommendations from a friend and our producer,

Sheena, expecting a baby in March, and she also wants recommendations and gifts.

You can email her, Sheana at Slate.com.

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