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🗓️ 11 August 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Elizabeth, Zak, and Lucy respond to a parent whose 7-year-old has developed intense separation anxiety—panicking anytime they’re apart, even with another parent nearby. The fears center around monsters the kid hasn’t seen, but hears about at school. So what do you do when reassurance stops working and fear takes over the routine?

But first, we’ll circle up for a round of check-ins: Elizabeth recounts a fireworks fiasco, Lucy faces down her daughter’s back-to-school worries, and Zak’s planning a very special birthday.

And on Slate Plus recommendations for parents and kids alike, everything we turn to when anxiety hits.

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0:00.0	This episode contains explicit language.
0:03.8	Welcome to Karen Feeding, the show where we raise the next generation together.
0:07.9	I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch Goose.
0:11.7	I'm the mom to Henry who's 13, Oliver who's 11, and Teddy who's 8. We live in Tokyo, Japan.
0:17.8	Hey, I'm Lucy Lopez. I host another podcast, The Mamasita Ricca.
0:21.6	I'm Mother to Amelia, who's 15, Avery, who's 12, and we live in Miami, Florida.
0:28.6	I'm Zach Rosen.
0:29.6	I live in Amsterdam for a little while longer.
0:31.6	My kids are Noah, who's seven, and Ami, who's four.
0:35.6	Today on the show, how to deal with your kids' separation anxiety.
0:39.6	But first, we'll check in with each other and share what's on our minds this week.
0:43.1	So let's get going. We're going to take a quick break and meet you back here for our catch-up.
0:59.7	Hey, it's Mary Harris. host of Slate's daily news podcast, what next?
1:07.0	I'm talking with Amicus co-host Mark Joseph Stern about the Supreme Court's new term, which technically starts this week.
1:12.5	The thing about this year, though, is that Mark feels like he already knows who's going to win in court, Donald Trump, which leaves him with a whole other question. Can he call these
1:18.2	justices judges? The law is changing every day, it seems, and the Supreme Court is often
1:24.2	changing the law without explaining itself. So it's, again, hard to conceptualize that as law, hard to describe it accurately or fairly as judging.
1:33.3	It looks a lot more like a super legislature, just passing a bunch of statutes that it thinks are best for the country and doing so without ever receiving a single vote from the American
1:44.6	people. Check out what next. Wherever you listen.
1:50.7	Hey, it's Anna Sale, host of Death, Sex, and Money, the podcast from Slate about the things
1:56.3	we think about a lot and need to talk about more. And recently, we asked you to tell us stories about your beauty interventions, what you've
2:05.1	decided to invest time and money in to improve your appearance.
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