Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - How to Talk Divorce With Kids
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
tell kids about divorce. Zak, Elizabeth, and Lucy share advice on language that reassures, pitfalls to avoid, and ways to keep the focus on love and stability. Plus, triumphs and fails: Friday night plans go awry, shoe shopping mishaps, and a school drop-off turns into a win.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode may contain explicit language. |
| 0:04.1 | Hey, welcome to Karen Feeding. |
| 0:05.9 | We're here to talk about the ups, the downs, and everything in between when it comes to parenting. |
| 0:10.8 | I'm Lucy Lopez. |
| 0:12.0 | I host another podcast, The Mamasita Rica. |
| 0:14.4 | I'm mother to Amelia who's 15, Avery, who is 12, and we live in Miami. |
| 0:19.7 | I'm Zach Rosen. |
| 0:39.1 | I also make another show. It's called The Best Advice Show. And I am dad to Noah, who's eight, and Ami, who is very close to five. We live in Detroit. I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. 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 8. We are currently in Atlanta, Georgia. |
| 0:41.0 | Every week we answer your questions. |
| 0:43.5 | We share our own parenting triumphs and fails and try to make this feel like the kind of conversation |
| 0:46.0 | you'd have with your parent friends. |
| 0:48.5 | Today, we've got a question from a parent |
| 0:50.3 | about how to break the news of separation |
| 0:52.4 | and big changes to younger kids. We'll talk |
| 0:55.4 | through some ideas and invite you to share what worked for your family. But first, Elizabeth |
| 0:59.8 | gets stuck in the gates of shoe hell and other triumphs and fails. Stay tuned. |
| 1:10.1 | Welcome back. It's time for triumphs and fails. Zach, do you have a triumph or fail for us this week? |
| 1:18.6 | Well, I tried to build this cliffhanger in last week, right? Because it was the first day of school. We were recording after the first day of school drop-off, so I didn't know how things went and was nervous, but then realized that he's doing okay because the teacher texted me on day one saying he's doing okay. So that was really nice. Shout out to teachers who might just sense ambient anxiety from parents and drop off who are just like texting parents on the first day. Had you told her that you were anxious? |
| 1:44.4 | Yeah, I did. |
| 1:45.3 | I told her that Ami has a hard time at drop off. |
| 1:47.9 | So she was anticipating that and she maybe just extrapolated that that meant I was nervous to. |
| 1:52.6 | This is all to say, now it's been a week. |
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