Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Help! Is My Kid Talking Enough?
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Lucy Lopez, Elizabeth Newcamp, and Zak Rosen are joined by Sydney Bassard from The Listening SLP to dig into everything you need to know about hearing loss, practical speech, language, and literacy with your kids.
But first, Lucy weighs in on the great flower girl controversy.
Podcast production by Cheyna Roth.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode may contain explicit language. |
| 0:07.8 | Welcome to Karen Feeding, where we get into the joys, challenges, and everyday realities |
| 0:12.3 | of parenting. I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch |
| 0:17.0 | goose. I'm the mom to Henry who's 13, Oliver who's 11, and, who's nine. And I'm in Rome. I'm Lucy Lopez. I host another podcast, the Mama Sita Rica. I'm mother to Amelia, who is 15, Avery, who's 12, and we live in Miami, Florida. I'm Zach Rosen. I also host another podcast. It's called Weirdly Helpful. It used to be called The Best Advice Show. |
| 0:38.0 | I am dad to Noah, who's eight, and Ami, who's five. We live in Detroit. |
| 0:42.8 | Every week, we answer your questions, talk to experts, and try to make this feel like the kind of conversation you'd have with your parent friends. |
| 0:50.1 | And today we're talking with a speech and language pathologist about what happens when you start to wonder, |
| 0:56.9 | is my child's speech on track? |
| 0:58.9 | We'll talk through when to ask for help and what early support can look like. |
| 1:03.1 | But first, a lot of you had thoughts after our episode about a flower girl who was not invited to the after party. |
| 1:08.6 | So we wanted to share one listener's perspective. |
| 1:11.5 | So stick around and we'll be right back. |
| 1:16.9 | Welcome back to Karen Feeding. We got a lot of responses to a listener letter from a couple |
| 1:25.6 | of episodes ago, all about a flower girl getting |
| 1:28.8 | excluded from the reception. I was fired up about it and so was this listener. Lucy, take it away. |
| 1:37.0 | Hello, wonderful hosts. Boy, did the flower girl being excluded from the reception get me fired up. |
| 1:45.3 | Yes, it is obviously the couple's choice not to allow children at the reception. |
| 1:49.3 | And also, my opinion changes if the flower girl's parents asked for her to have this rule versus the opposite, but to frankly use this child for her cuteness in the ceremony. |
| 2:02.1 | By the way, that's a flex. |
| 2:03.5 | And pictures and then tell her she can't come to the reception and put the burden on her parents to figure that out is incredibly rude. |
| 2:14.1 | Honestly, who is more likely to ruin a reception? |
| 2:17.1 | A kid or a drunk uncle? |
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