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🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

On this episode: Lucy Lopez, Elizabeth Newcamp, and Zak Rosen want you to know that it’s GOOD to ask for what you need! A listener’s non-verbal kid seems to be doing great at school, but the school hasn’t been communicating with mom about what’s going on for her kid during the day. Should she reach out and ask for more? Or be happy that her kid is happy?

But first, they share their latest Triumphs and Fails: Zak loses his temper at Niagara Falls, Elizabeth is struggling with Teddy’s reluctance to go…anywhere, and Lucy is living in a theater house with both girls getting the leads in their school plays.

Want to know what Slate parenting columnist Nicole Chung thought about the listener’s letter? Check out the Care and Feeding column, “I Need Something More From My Son’s Already Overworked Teacher. I’m Scared to Ask for It.”

Podcast production by Cheyna Roth. Video production by Micah Phillips.

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0:00.0	This episode may contain explicit language.
0:08.4	This is Karen Feeding. We're three friends with kids who get together every week to talk
0:13.2	life, swap advice, and keep each other sane while we muddle through this weird and wonderful
0:18.8	thing called parenting. I'm Elizabeth Newkamp.
0:21.6	I have three kids, Henry who's 13, Oliver who's 11, and Teddy who's nine, and I live in
0:27.1	Honolulu, Hawaii.
0:29.1	I'm Zach Rosen.
0:30.3	I make another podcast.
0:31.7	It's called Weirdly Helpful.
0:33.0	I am dad to Noah, who's eight.
0:35.5	Ami, who's five.
0:36.7	And we live in Detroit
0:37.7	where it's five
0:39.6	degrees
0:40.6	oh that's cold
0:43.1	damn
0:44.2	damn David or Daniel
0:46.9	hey I'm Lucy Lopez
0:49.1	I'm a teen mom
0:51.4	I'm just kidding my kids are teens
0:53.2	Amelia is 15 Avery's 13 and And we live in Miami, Florida. And it is right now, Zach, I just want to make you like a little jealous. I need some heat. Give it to me. I'm going to tell you right now, it is a freezing 72 degrees. Oh, my God. I hope you're wearing your turtleneck sweater. All right. Well, we're here
1:13.3	to talk about the ups, downs, and everything in between when it comes to parenting. Every week,
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