Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - How to Keep Your Wildness
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🗓️ 1 June 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Lucy Lopez, Elizabeth Newcamp, and Zak Rosen are joined by Austin Kleon. He’s the author of books like Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work! Kleon has a new book out in June called Don’t Call It Art: 10 Ways to Create Like a Kid Again. He joins the ‘Rents to talk about rediscovering your wildness, how screens can actually help kids create, and how to cultivate a creative space for yourself and your littles.
This week on the Plus Playground: A boy mom quandary.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode may contain explicit language. |
| 0:06.1 | This is Karen Feeding. |
| 0:07.5 | We're three buds with kids who get together every week to talk life, swap advice, |
| 0:12.8 | and keep each other sane while we muddle through this very weird and a very wonderful thing called parenting. |
| 0:19.1 | I'm Zach Rosen. I make another podcast that's called Weirdly Helpful. |
| 0:22.8 | And I'm Dad to Noah, who is eight, and Ami, who's five. |
| 0:26.7 | We live in sunny Detroit. |
| 0:28.2 | Detroit Rocks. |
| 0:29.3 | Hey, I'm Lucy Lopez. |
| 0:31.2 | And I have a substack with Elizabeth. |
| 0:34.2 | It is called Best Mom Friends Forever. Find us on Substack. We are there. The last article that I wrote about summer reading has been a smash hit. Everyone loves it. Why aren't you part of our substack family? What's happening? Oh yeah. I'm also a parent to Amelia who just turned 16 like two weeks ago. |
| 0:55.3 | And Avery, who's 13, I am a mother surviving Miami, Florida. |
| 1:01.8 | I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. |
| 1:03.2 | I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch Goose, as well as the substack with Lucy. |
| 1:08.3 | I'm also the mom to Henry, who's 14, Oliver, who's 12, and Teddy, who's nine, and we live in Honolulu, Hawaii. |
| 1:16.3 | We're here to talk about the ups, the downs, and everything in between when it comes to parenting. |
| 1:20.9 | Every week we'll answer your questions, share our own parenting triumphs and fails, |
| 1:25.6 | and try to make this feel like the kind of conversation |
| 1:27.8 | you have with your friends. |
| 1:29.5 | And today we've got a very special guest, Austin Cleon. |
| 1:33.4 | He is an Austin-based writer and artist. |
| 1:37.4 | His newsletter is, aside from Best Mom and Friends Forever, his is my favorite newsletter. |
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