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Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Talking To Kids About The Election

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🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

On this episode: Elizabeth, Lucy and Zak share how they’re talking to the kids about tomorrow’s election. We’ll offer tips for cutting through the noise to talk civics… and also how to address the serious, nasty, and scary. 


Elizabeth’s book recommendations: 

V is for Voting by Kate Farrell

Equality’s Call: the Story of Voting Rights in America by Deborah Diesen

Usborne: Politics for Beginners 

The Politics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained 


We’ll also check in on where the hosts are this week – and then, if you’re coming to hang out on the Slate Plus Playground, we’re sharing our deep-seated love of (and gripes with) daylight savings.


If you’re not part of the Slate Plus community, we hope you’ll consider joining! Keep reading to learn how.


Lucy’s check-in: back to the shitty little walk (as heard on Hear Me Out)

Elizabeth’s check-in: blow darts and ninja stars and teens and days in the month

Zak’s check-in: therapy 


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Podcast produced by Maura Currie.


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contain explicit language. Welcome to Karen Feeding, the show where we parent together.

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I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the family travel blog, Dutch Dutch goose,

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and I'm the mom to Henry who's 12, Oliver who's 10,

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and Teddy who's 8.

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We live in Tokyo, Japan.

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Hey, I'm Lucy Lopez.

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I host another podcast, the Mamasita Rica.

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And I'm Mother to Amelia, who's 14,

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