Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - My Kid’s Bad At Baseball (And He Knows It)
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Elizabeth, Zak and Lucy help a listener who left us a voicemail about their little athlete who’s just not great at baseball… and he also gets upset when the game doesn’t go his way. If this kid were an adult, it’d be time to have an honest conversation about knowing your strengths. But how does that conversation work with a kid?
And after that conversation, of course, we’ll also debrief on our week in parenting with a round of triumphs and fails.
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| 0:49.7 | Welcome to Karen Feeding, the show where we raise the next generation together. |
| 0:57.0 | What's up? I'm Lucy Lopez. I host the Mama Citariga Podcast. I'm Mother to Amelia who's 14, Avery who's 11 and we live in Miami, Florida. |
| 1:07.0 | Hey, I'm Zach Rosen. I host another podcast. It's |
| 1:15.0 | for the best advice show and I'm dad to Noah who's seven and Ami who's four. We live in Amsterdam. |
| 1:17.0 | I'm Elizabeth New Camp. I write the family travel blog Dutch, Dutch Goose. |
| 1:20.0 | I'm the mom to Henry who's 12, Oliver who's 10, and Teddy who's 7. We live in Tokyo, Japan. |
| 1:26.0 | All right, so today on the show we're answering a voicemail from a listener who's looking for some help with their little baseball player who is not great at |
| 1:34.0 | baseball but his expectations are high and is leading to a lot of disappointment. |
| 1:39.1 | So we'll help this listener figure out how to balance having fun, being good sport, knowing your strengths, |
| 1:45.2 | and maybe not signing to the Mets right away. |
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