Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - How Busy Is Too Busy?
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Elizabeth, Zak, and Jamilah respond to a listener's question about how families handle the growing demands on kids’ time—and how working parents try to protect space for rest, school, and family connection.
Then, they’ll circle up for a round of check-ins, sharing wins, struggles, and the everyday chaos of balancing life.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode contains explicit language. |
| 0:03.7 | Welcome to Karen Feeding, the show where we raise the next generation together. |
| 0:08.2 | I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, contributor to Slate's Karen Feeding parenting column, and mom to Naima, who's 11. |
| 0:15.3 | Excuse me, she's 12, and we live in Los Angeles. |
| 0:18.6 | I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch, Dutch, goose. |
| 0:42.9 | I'm the mom to Henry who's 13, Oliver who's 11, and Teddy who's 8. We live in Tokyo, Japan. I'm Zach Rosen. I make another podcast. It's called The Best Advice Show. And I'm Dad to Noah, who's 7, and Ami, who's 4. We live in Amsterdam. today on the, how to strike the right balance with after-school activities and decide how much is too much. |
| 0:48.3 | And just what makes an extracurricular activity too extra for your family. |
| 0:52.2 | But first, we'll check in with each other and share what's on our minds this week. |
| 0:53.2 | So let's get going. But first, we're going to take a quick break and meet you back here to catch up. |
| 1:06.5 | Hey, it's Anna Sale, host of death, sex, and money, the podcast from Slate about the things we think about a lot and need to talk about more. |
| 1:15.4 | And recently, we asked you to tell us stories about your beauty interventions, what you've decided to invest time and money in to improve your appearance. |
| 1:25.4 | So I looked at my dad, and I looked at him carefully, and I said, no, no, no, no, no, no. |
| 1:31.9 | We are going to sail in a different direction than this. |
| 1:37.1 | We heard from people who spent thousands on plastic surgery, fillers, and skincare routines, |
| 1:43.3 | and from others who decided to reject pressure, |
| 1:46.1 | like covering grayes. |
| 1:47.6 | It's kind of like, why do I need to do that? |
| 1:51.5 | I mean, for you? |
| 1:54.4 | Is it for you? |
| 1:56.5 | Or? |
| 1:58.5 | Because you're embarrassed to have a friend or a spouse with gray hair? |
| 2:02.5 | I mean, what is the encouragement from? |
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