Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Birthday On a Budget

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

Slate Audio

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

On this episode: Elizabeth, Jamilah, and Zak help a listener who is worried her kid’s backyard birthday party won’t compete with the other kids’ extravagant parties. They come up with some budget-friendly ideas for creating an awesome birthday celebration. Then on Slate Plus, they talk about Everything Everywhere All at Once winning at the Oscars and all the love moms are getting.

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0:00.0	At Barclays we're here for the land of football, we're here for the Premier League and the Barclays
0:09.4	Women's Super League. We're here for the football charts for giving more girls the charts.
0:17.6	We're here for the grassroots and all the muddy boots. From schools to stadiums, we're here for it
0:25.1	all Barclays. We're here for the land of football.
0:32.9	Welcome to Mama Dutter Fighting Slates Parenting Podcast for Thursday, March 16th, the birthday
0:38.9	on a budget edition. I'm Elizabeth Newcamp, I write the Homeschool and Family Travel Blog,
0:43.6	Dutch Dutch Goose, I'm the mom of three little Henry Huss 10, Oliver Huss 8, and Teddy Huss 6.
0:49.0	We live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I'm Zach Rosen, I make the best advice show
0:54.3	podcast and I live in Detroit with my family. My oldest Noah is five and a half and my youngest
0:59.9	army is two and a half. I'm Jameela Lemieux, a writer and contributor to Slates'
1:05.1	Karen Feeding Parenting Column. I'm mom to Naima, who will soon be 10 and we live in Los Angeles.
1:11.9	Today on the show, how to plan a kid's birthday party without breaking the bank? During the
1:17.0	height of the pandemic, party expectations shifted, but it seems like things are getting more
1:21.7	elaborate and extravagant. It's left at least one listener wondering how they can compete.
1:27.2	Then, if you're sticking around for Slate Plus, we're going to be talking about everything everywhere,
1:31.6	all at once, winning the Oscars and the love moms are getting. Here's what you'll hear if you have
1:36.8	Slate Plus. It centers a superhero mom, like they explicitly make a mom kind of unassuming
1:44.3	woman who runs a dry cleaner, like they literally turn her into a superhero. So like you can think
1:49.4	about the metaphor of that, but they literalize it that moms are superheroes.
1:54.2	As a Slate Plus member, you will get a whole bonus segment from us each week. Zero ads on any
1:59.1	Slate podcast and you get unlimited access to the Slate website. Plus, it's truly the best way
2:04.6	to support our show. So I hope you'll join if you can. You can sign up for Slate Plus now at
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