Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Everyday Carry for Parents: Never Leave Without These
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Lucy Lopez, Elizabeth Newcamp, and Zak Rosen have animal talk! They’re joined by zoo consultant Megan Sanders to talk about ways to help kids feel or involved in making the world a better place for animals.
But first, the hosts have an Every Day Carry segment! They share everything that’s currently in their bags - from favorite snacks to boredom busters and more.
Podcast production by Cheyna Roth. Video production by Micah Phillips.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode may contain explicit language. |
| 0:07.7 | Welcome to Karen Feeding, the show that's as honest and messy as parenting itself. |
| 0:12.7 | I'm Zach Rosen. I make another podcast that's called Weirdly Helpful. I am Dad to Noah, |
| 0:18.1 | who's eight, and Ami, who's five. We live in Detroit. I'm Elizabeth New Camp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch goose. I'm the mom to Henry, who's 13, Oliver, who's 11, and Teddy, who's nine. And we are in London. So cool. Hey, I'm Lucy Lopez. I do another podcast, too. It's the Mamasita Rica. I'm Mother to Amelia, |
| 0:40.8 | who's 15, Avery, who's 12, and we live in Miami. This week, I'm going to the Detroit Zoo. |
| 0:50.6 | I talked with a great ape expert. Her name is Jill Moise. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm very excited for you to meet her. |
| 0:58.0 | And we also had a listener question asking for ideas for how a kid can feel more involved |
| 1:02.0 | in making the world a better place for animals. |
| 1:05.0 | So we brought on Megan Sanders, a zoo consultant and teacher for some ideas. |
| 1:10.0 | And we'll get into that in just a bit, but first, we're digging into our bags. |
| 1:14.5 | I've always wanted to do this. |
| 1:15.8 | I always see celebrities do it like on vogue.com. |
| 1:18.1 | I'm like, I want people to see what's in my bag. |
| 1:20.7 | We got this amazing listener question that was really for you, Elizabeth, about what amazing |
| 1:26.1 | things do we have in our bags to keep ourselves |
| 1:29.5 | and our children sane? |
| 1:32.1 | And if you're not already watching our episodes on YouTube, you absolutely should be for this |
| 1:37.2 | episode. |
| 1:37.9 | You can find us by searching care and feeding in the YouTube search box or go to YouTube.com |
| 1:43.6 | slash at care and feeding. That's the at sign, |
| 1:47.1 | the little symbol, care and feeding. Give us a subscribe and let us know what you think. |
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