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Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Demystifying Car Seat Safety

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3.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

On this episode: Lucy, Zak, and Elizabeth mark Child Passenger Safety Week with a conversation about car seats. Child passenger safety technician Jamie Grayson joins to break down the basics: how to install correctly, when to switch stages, and the mistakes parents don’t even realize they’re making.

Here is the NHTSA car seat safety page.

Listen to our last episode with Jamie: Car Seat Safety Explained!

Then, in a round of triumphs and fails, the hosts tackle tough conversations about sharing, the tricky art of trusting kids’ street smarts, and Zak’s rude awakening about how much a Labubu really costs. 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This episode may contain explicit language.

0:21.6

Welcome to Karen Feeding. We're here to talk about the ups, downs, and everything in between when it comes to parenting. I'm Zach Rosen. I make another show. It's called The Best Advice Show, and I am to add to Noah, who's eight, and Ami, who's five. We live in Detroit. Hey, I'm Lucy Lopez. I host another podcast, the Mamasita Ricca. I'm Mother to Amelia, who's 15, Avery who's 12, and we live in Detroit. Hey, I'm Lucy Lopez. I host another podcast, the Mamasita Rika. I'm Mother to Amelia who's 15, Avery, who's 12, and we live in Miami, Florida. I'm Elizabeth Newkamp.

0:27.7

I write the homeschool and family chapel blog, Dutch Dutch, Goose. I'm the mom to Henry, who's 13,

0:32.4

Oliver, who's 11, and Teddy, who's 8. We are currently in Atlanta, Georgia.

0:36.9

Every week, we dig into your parenting

0:38.5

questions, tell on ourselves with our triumphs and fails, and try to keep it feeling like a chat

0:45.2

with friends at the playground. But today, everything is taking a back seat or car seats.

0:51.2

But I'm flunching. That's right. September 21st through the 27th is child passenger

0:56.8

safety week. I talked to Jamie Grayson, a child passenger safety technician and baby gear expert,

1:03.1

to get to the bottom of everything you need to know about car seat safety. But we'll get to

1:07.2

that after a round of triumphs and fails. So stick around and we'll be right back.

1:18.2

Welcome back. It's time for triumphs and fails, Lucy. Do you have a triumph for fail this week?

1:23.0

I have something that started off as a complete fail and ended as a triumph.

1:27.2

Great.

1:27.7

Yeah, we had to get the girls blue light glasses for school because they're on the computer so much.

1:34.4

So we got them a pack.

1:35.5

As soon as the pack gets here, Amelia lays down the law.

1:38.6

She's like, we're not sharing.

1:39.9

This one is yours.

1:40.9

This one is mine.

1:41.6

There was an agreement amongst both of them that obviously was not going to be any sharing.

1:46.7

So sure enough, a week after these glasses were purchased, Amelia comes to Avery and is like,

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