Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Comebacks For “I’m Bored”
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🗓️ 3 July 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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On this episode: Zak, Elizabeth and Jamilah talk about summer boredom. We get questions about this every year — so we’re coming in early this year with some ideas for how to handle that classic, but dreaded, complaint… that no, really, there’s nothing to do.
And after that, of course, we’re sharing a round of triumphs and fails.
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| 0:35.9 | Welcome to Karen Feeding, the show where we raise the next generation together. |
| 0:39.3 | I'm Zach Rosen. I make another podcast. It's called The Best Advice Show. |
| 0:43.3 | And I'm Dad to Noah, who's seven, and Ami, who's four. We live in Amsterdam. |
| 0:48.3 | I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, contributor to Slate's Karen Feeding Karen Tinkala, and moms from Naima, who is 12, |
| 0:56.5 | and we live in Los Angeles. I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. All right, the family travel blog, |
| 1:00.9 | Dutch, Dutch, Dutch goose. I'm the mom to Henry, who's 13, Oliver, who's 11, and Teddy, who's 8. |
| 1:05.7 | We live in Tokyo, Japan. Today on the show, we're talking about summer boredom. |
| 1:12.2 | We get questions about this every year. |
| 1:14.3 | So we're coming in early this year with some ideas for how to handle that classic but dreaded complaint. |
| 1:20.5 | That, no, no, really, there's nothing to do. |
| 1:23.8 | And after that, of course, we're going to circle up for a round of triumphs and fails. |
| 1:27.4 | Let's do this. But first, we're going to circle up for a round of triumphs and fails. Let's do this. |
| 1:28.2 | But first, we're going to take a quick break. |
| 1:37.4 | Summer's here, and it's time for your kids to have fun in the sun, |
| 1:40.5 | but it's also a great time to nurture growing minds. |
| 1:44.0 | Million Bazillion, a podcast from Marketplace, teaches your kids about something that impacts |
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