Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - I Think I Smelled Weed On My 13-Year-Old
Slate Culture Feed
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
On this episode: Elizabeth, Zak and Lucy help a listener who’s pretty sure they smelled marijuana when their young teen and a friend got in the car. The parent is wondering if they should have said something… but if so, what? And when is really too young?
We’ll also go over our week in parenting triumphs and fails — including an update on Henry’s solo trip in Tokyo — and share some listener mail we got about teenage tattoos.
Join us on Facebook and email us at careandfeedingpod@slate.com to ask us new questions, tell us what you thought of today’s show, and give us ideas about what we should talk about in future episodes. You can also call our phone line: (646) 357-9318.
If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you’ll also be supporting the work we do here on Care and Feeding. Sign up now at slate.com/careplus to help support our work.
Podcast produced by Maura Currie, with special thanks to Rosemary Belson.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This episode may contain explicit language. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to Karen Feeding, the show where we raise the next generation together. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Elizabeth New Camp, I write the family travel blog Dutch Dutch Goose. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm the mom of three little |
| 0:13.8 | Henry who's 11 Oliver who's 9 and Teddy who's 7 we live in Tokyo Japan. |
| 0:18.6 | Hey I'm Lucy Lopez I'm the host of the Mama C. Tahriga podcast. I'm mother to Anmelia who's 13, |
| 0:25.5 | April who's 11, and we live in Miami, Florida. |
| 0:28.2 | I'm Zach Rosen. I host another show. It's called The Best Advice Show, |
| 0:32.1 | and I'm Dad to Noah, who's six and Ami who's three. |
| 0:35.0 | We live in Detroit. |
| 0:36.0 | Well, this week we're answering a question that recently popped up in the slate parenting Facebook group. |
| 0:42.0 | This parent picked up their young teen and a friend |
| 0:45.3 | and is pretty sure they smelled weed once the kids got in the car. We'll talk about |
| 0:49.9 | how to balance the seriousness of potential drug use with what might be just a normal part of team-dom. |
| 0:55.8 | Then we're going to debrief on our weekend parenting with a round of everyone's favorite, |
| 0:59.7 | triumphs and fails. So let's get this show on the road. We're going to take a quick break and then we'll see |
| 1:04.6 | you back here for our listener question. |
| 1:07.0 | All right, we're back and ready to hop into our listener question. Like we said, this came |
| 1:16.5 | from a member of our Slate Parenting Facebook group. If you're not part of that community |
| 1:20.5 | already, we'd love to have you. It's a great place to get advice all you have to do |
| 1:24.9 | is search for slate parenting on Facebook answer some quick questions to prove you're a |
| 1:29.9 | human and you'll be part of the club too we We hope to see you there. Okay, let's hear today's |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Slate Podcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Slate Podcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.