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This is Karen Feeding. We're three friends with kids who get together weekly to talk life,

swap advice, and keep each other sane while we muddle through this weird and wonderful thing

called parenting. I'm Zach Rosen. I make another podcast. It's called Weirdly Helpful. And I live in

Detroit with my family. My daughter, Noah, is eight and my son, Ami, is five. Hey, I'm Lucy Lopez.

I'm mother to Amelia. She's 15. Avery, who's 13. I am currently on Substack. You can find

me. It's called Best Mom Friends Forever.

And it's just like a really fun little newsletter that my friends and I have put together.

That is Best Mom Friends Forever.

Yeah, and we live in Miami.

I'm Elizabeth New Camp.

I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch, Dutch, goose.

I'm mom to Henry who's 13, Oliver, who's 11, and Teddy who's 9.

You might also be finding me on the substack.

Something fun from Lucy and I and a few others, so that's fun to come check out. But we live in

Honolulu, Hawaii. This is a show about parenting, like the good parts, the terrible parts,

the parts no one talks to you about or even bothers to warn you about. And each week, we answer your

questions. We unpack our own triumphs and fails and then like we try to figure

them out on in real time. We even make sticky notes, stick it to our foreheads to remind

ourselves that we're human. We're basically like the friends you text when you're not sure

if things are normal. And today we've brought in reinforcements. We're joined by Jeff Young. Jeff, would you

introduce yourself? Yeah, hi. Great to be here. I'm Jeff Young. I'm a journalist. I'm based in St. Paul,

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