Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Is Gaming Taking Over Boys’ Lives?
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🗓️ 20 October 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Friend of the show Jamilah Lemieux tackles helping kids get a better night's sleep. She’s joined by gentle sleep coach Macall Gordon. They discuss what to do with “live-wire kids”, how to avoid burnout when trying to get your kid to sleep, why we need to stop blaming parents for kid sleep issues, and more.
But first, Care and Feeding producer Cheyna Roth joins the team to talk about a recent New York Times piece, “How Video Games Are Shaping a Generation of Boys, for Better and Worse”. They dig into the pros and cons of gaming as a social activity, whether it’s possible to get kids to touch grass anymore, and how to navigate these tricky waters.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode may contain explicit language. |
| 0:06.7 | Welcome to Karen Feeding, the show that's as honest and messy as parenting itself. |
| 0:11.4 | I'm Zach Rosen. I make another show. It's called The Best Advice Show. And I'm dad to Noah, |
| 0:16.5 | who is eight, and Ami, who's five. We live in Detroit. |
| 0:20.2 | I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch Goose. I'm the mom to Henry mommy who's five. We live in Detroit. I'm Elizabeth New Camp. I write the |
| 0:21.7 | homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch goose. I'm the mom to Henry who's 13, Oliver who's 11, |
| 0:26.5 | and Teddy who's nine. We are currently in Atlanta, Georgia. Lucy's out this week, so we're joined |
| 0:32.6 | by our very favorite, Shana Roth. Hello, I'm Shana Roth. I'm a senior producer at Slate. |
| 0:38.0 | I am now the producer of Karen Feeding, but I've popped around and hosted and produced a bunch of different shows across the Slate podcast network. I have a daughter who's five and a half. No. Holy shit. Sorry. It's pregnancy brain. It's pregnancy brain. It didn't sound right. I'm like, no. Yeah, |
| 0:57.5 | 2020. Oh, my God. I have a daughter who's five and a half and I will be expecting a new one in March. |
| 1:06.3 | Well, this week, we've got a great conversation to share between Friend of the Pod, Jamila Lemieux, |
| 1:11.6 | and gentle sleep coach, McCall Gordon. They dig into tips and advice for helping your kids |
| 1:17.0 | get their very best sees. We'll get into that in just a bit, but first, we want to talk |
| 1:22.3 | video games. The New York Times had an article recently about how gaming is shaping a generation of boys. |
| 1:28.9 | Is this a good thing, a bad thing, or somewhere in between? |
| 1:31.3 | And how do you help your kids find their right balance between the screen and the real world? |
| 1:35.4 | We'll get into it. |
| 1:36.2 | So stick around. |
| 1:37.4 | We'll be right back. |
| 1:42.8 | If I get my kid a phone, I'll be able to keep in touch with them all the time. They'll be on it all the time. He could walk to school by himself. She could see something she shouldn't. He could chat with grandma. Friends, trolls. They can access anything on the internet. They can access anything on the internet. So, should I give my kid a phone? Growing up with phones isn't always easy. |
| 2:01.7 | Introducing EEE Safe for Sims. |
| 2:03.7 | Sims that help moderate usage and shield harmful content on any smartphone. |
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