Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Encore! A Tooth Fairy Fail
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3.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Slate senior producer Cheyna Roth joins Zak Rosen and Elizabeth Newcamp to debate wedding ceremony etiquette. A listener’s kid is the flower girl at a friend’s wedding. But now it turns out the flower girl is NOT invited to the wedding reception. Is this fair? They dig into whether kids make a wedding better, logistics, and more.
But first, in another edition of Triumphs and Fails, Cheyna deals with a week-long bus cancellation, Elizabeth celebrates a big birthday, and Zak has to deal with Tooth Fairy fallout.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Karen, feeding listeners. We're still off on our summer break, but don't worry, we have a really fun episode for you to revisit. |
| 0:07.0 | Or listen to for the first time. This episode includes an all-time fail from Zach, plus a fun debate about flower girl etiquette. |
| 0:16.0 | We hope you're having a fabulous summer break. Enjoy. This episode may contain explicit language. |
| 0:26.7 | Welcome to Karen Feeding. We're here to talk about the ups, downs, and everything in |
| 0:31.5 | between when it comes to parenting. I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family |
| 0:36.0 | travel blog, Dutch Dutch goose. |
| 0:37.6 | I'm the mom to Henry who's 13, Oliver who's 11, and Teddy who's 9. We are currently in Atlanta, Georgia. I'm Zach Rosen. I make another podcast. It's called The Best Advice Show. And I'm dad to Noah, who's 8, and Ami, who's 5. We live in Detroit. I'm Shana Roth. I am a senior producer at Slate. |
| 0:55.2 | I am the new producer at Slate. |
| 0:55.2 | I am the new producer of care and feeding, and I've also bopped around to a lot of different shows across the Slate Network in hosting and producing capacities. |
| 1:05.4 | I am a mother of a five-and-a-half-year-old daughter, and telling Elizabeth and Zach this for the first time |
| 1:12.7 | I'm actually pregnant I am oh my god sheena what a what a reveal this is real I was I'm |
| 1:22.3 | I've been meaning to tell you guys because I mean the best This is, I mean, the best time. I'm so excited. |
| 1:30.6 | 17 and a half-ish weeks. |
| 1:32.5 | I don't know, like four months-ish. |
| 1:34.0 | Congratulations. |
| 1:35.5 | Yes, Shana. |
| 1:36.1 | Thank you. |
| 1:36.8 | And I live in Michigan with Zach. |
| 1:39.8 | Not with Zach, but I'm a fellow Michigander. |
| 1:42.6 | We live on a commune. |
| 1:43.5 | We've told you all right. |
| 1:44.5 | Yeah. |
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