Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Extra Parenting, Extra Guilt
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🗓️ 28 August 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
This week on Care and Feeding, Zak, Lucy, and Elizabeth help a parent who is doing ‘extra’ parenting for one of her kids. She’s worried her other kid will feel resentful. The hosts have helpful strategies for balancing fairness while preserving your sanity.
In Triumphs and Fails: international moves, heartbreaking goodbyes, and a snack-money gremlin.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode contains explicit language. |
| 0:04.8 | Welcome to Karen Feeding, the podcast where we get honest about parenting at every stage. |
| 0:09.8 | I'm Lucy Lopez. I host another podcast, the Mamacita Rica. I'm mother to Amelia who's 15, |
| 0:15.4 | Avery who's 12, and we live in Miami. I'm Elizabeth New Camp. I write the homeschooled family travel blog, |
| 0:21.7 | Dutch Dutch goose. I'm the mom to Henry family travel blog, Dutch Dutch, Goose. |
| 0:25.9 | I'm the mom to Henry who's 13, Oliver who's 11, and Teddy who's 8. |
| 0:29.8 | We live in Tokyo, Japan, for one last week. |
| 0:30.8 | I'm Zach Rosen. |
| 0:34.5 | I live in Amsterdam for one last week with my family. |
| 0:40.5 | My daughter, Noah, just turned eight, and Ami is about to turn five. Oh yeah, |
| 0:46.3 | and I make a podcast called The Best of Life Show. Every week we answer your questions. We share our own parenting triumphs and fails and then try to make this feel like the kind of conversation you'd |
| 0:50.8 | have with your parent friends. Today we've got a listener question about what to do when one kid needs so much extra |
| 0:57.8 | attention and how to keep the others from feeling invisible. |
| 1:00.9 | It's a tough one, but a lot of us have been there before. |
| 1:03.8 | Yes, and speaking of tough, we have some tough triumphs. |
| 1:07.3 | There's no glory in our triumphs this week, but I think there wins nonetheless, so let's |
| 1:12.4 | get going. |
| 1:17.7 | It's time for triumphs and fails. Zach, do you have a triumph or fail for us this week? |
| 1:23.6 | I have to take it as a triumph, but it's a challenging moment right now. |
| 1:28.1 | I'm recording this on my daughter's birthday, on Noah's birthday. |
| 1:32.6 | She turns eight as of this recording. |
| 1:35.2 | And we are also like four days away from leaving Amsterdam to head back home to Detroit. |
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