Black. Single. Mother.

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

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Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

On this episode: Lucy Lopez, Elizabeth Newcamp, and Zak Rosen are joined by former co-host and current Care & Feeding columnist, Jamilah Lemieux. They discuss her new book, Black. Single. Mother. Real Life Tales of Longing and Belonging, out March 10, 2026. Jamilah also joins for a round of triumphs and fails and answers some burning questions from listeners about life after the show.

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

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0:00.0	This episode may contain explicit language.
0:04.9	This is Karen Feeding. 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.
0:16.8	I'm Elizabeth Newcamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch goose.
0:21.1	I'm the mom to Henry who's 13, Oliver who's 11, and Teddy who's 9. And we live in Honolulu, Hawaii.
0:28.2	Hey, I'm Lucy Lopez. I host another podcast, the Mamasita Rica. I'm mother to Amelia who's 15, Avery, who's 13, and we live in Miami.
0:37.0	And I'm Zach Rosen.
0:38.5	I have two kids.
0:40.2	Noah's 8.
0:41.1	Ami's 5.
0:42.0	We live in Detroit.
0:43.2	And I'm so excited about our special guest.
0:45.4	Hi.
0:46.0	I'm Jamila Lemieux.
0:47.5	I am a writer, contributor to Slate's Karen feeding parenting column, and mom to Naima, who is 12, and we live in Los Angeles.
0:57.7	We are going to talk about the ups, the downs, and everything in between when it comes to parenting.
1:03.7	Every week, we commiserate, offer advice, and try to make this feel like the kind of conversation
1:08.7	you have with your friends. And you heard it right in the introduction.
1:12.8	Jamila is back with us.
1:14.7	Jamila, how have you been?
1:16.8	Really good.
1:18.3	Really, really good.
1:19.6	Some life updates, but good.
	...

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