Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Debunking Viral Parenting “Hacks”
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Lucy Lopez, Elizabeth Newcamp, and Zak Rosen want you to know that you’re still a great parent, even if you don’t sit by your kids’ bedside to gently wake them up. It’s okay! The ‘Rents sit down and debunk some of those pretty parenting tips you see all the time on Instagram. You know the ones. They have a really aesthetic, soothing background, and then say something wild like “Meaningfully listen to everything your kid says.” We can try to gentle it up all the time BUT sometimes we just don’t care what the kids are saying! Come for the debunking, stay for a relatable venting session.
Then, they answer a listener question: Is it okay for a parent’s daughter, who is very interested in learning about other cultures, to have a Sari/Saree? They want to nurture the interest but is it culturally appropriate?
Podcast production by Cheyna Roth. Video production by Micah Phillips.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this episode may contain explicit language. |
| 0:08.0 | This is Karen Feeding. We're three friends with kids who get together like every week to talk life, swap advice and keep each other sane while muddling through this weird and wonderful thing called parenting. |
| 0:20.7 | I'm Lucy Lopez. I have teenagers. Help me. One is 15, Amelia, and the other 13, Avery. And we live in Miami. I'm Zach Rosen. I make another podcast called Weirdly Helpful. I have two kids. Noah is eight going on 16. Ami is five. We live in Detroit. I'm Elizabeth Newcamp. I've got three kids. Henry, who's 13, Oliver is 11, and Teddy, who's nine. And we are living in Honolulu, Hawaii. |
| 0:48.3 | We're here to talk about the ups, downs, and everything in between when it comes to parenting. And this week, we're debunking viral parenting hacks and bits of advice. |
| 0:58.6 | The things you see on the internet that make you go, huh, are you for real? |
| 1:03.4 | We've got some really interesting ones, like how you should wake your child up in the morning. |
| 1:10.1 | After that, we'll answer a listener question about where the line is between child |
| 1:13.8 | interest in other cultures and cultural appropriation. |
| 1:17.2 | Stick around. |
| 1:22.5 | All right, welcome back. |
| 1:24.5 | Elizabeth, start debunking. |
| 1:26.9 | You brought this question to our very exclusive Slate Slack |
| 1:30.1 | channel. What's one you want to talk about? Yeah, so a listener messaged me, sending me actually this one |
| 1:37.0 | and said, I wish you guys would tell me what you thought about some of these viral parenting |
| 1:41.7 | things they see on Instagram. And these are the ones, you know, on TikTok or whatever, and they look beautiful. |
| 1:46.9 | And they have all of this. |
| 1:49.0 | Like they just make you feel like, oh, I should do that. |
| 1:51.6 | But like, should you? |
| 1:52.7 | Okay. |
| 1:53.0 | So this one came from our listener, but is from Miramika art on Instagram. |
| 2:00.2 | And the head thing said, Berlin parents start mornings with a quiet |
| 2:04.4 | gesture to reshape the day. And then it goes on, you flip through several slides and it says, |
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