Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - We Lied About a Missing Toy
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🗓️ 7 April 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Zak, Elizabeth and Jamilah answer a question about a mouse, a skateboard, a ball pit, and a lie. It’s as amazing as it sounds.
We’ll help this mom out and then check in and share what’s on our minds this week. Then, if you’re hanging out for the Slate Plus Playground, we’re talking about saying no.
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Zak’s check-in: Feeling impossible
Elizabeth’s check-in: The PTA chickens come home to roost
Jamilah’s check-in: To go or not to go or to go somewhere else
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| 0:00.0 | The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. |
| 0:04.7 | Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be wearing or taking off. |
| 0:09.2 | The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain that'll soak you to the skin. |
| 0:15.1 | By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching their peak in the afternoon. |
| 0:21.3 | Not in the mood for miserable weather. |
| 0:23.5 | Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express. |
| 0:26.4 | Sun Express, nonstop sunshine. |
| 0:30.0 | This episode contains explicit language. |
| 0:35.3 | Welcome to Karen Feeding, the show where we raise the next generation together. |
| 0:39.2 | I'm Zach Rosen. I make another podcast. It's called The Best Advice Show. And I am dad to Noah, |
| 0:43.8 | who's seven, and Ami, who's four. We live in Amsterdam. I'm Elizabeth Newcamp. I write the |
| 0:48.6 | family travel blog Dutch Dutch Goose. I'm the mom to Henry who's 12, Oliver who's 10, and Teddy who's 8. We live in Tokyo, Japan. |
| 0:57.3 | I'm Jameela Lemieux. I'm a writer, contributor to Slate's camp eating parenting column, |
| 1:02.7 | and mom to Naima, who is 12, and we live in Los Angeles. Today on the show, get this, |
| 1:10.6 | we're answering a question about a mouse, a skateboard, a ball pit, |
| 1:14.7 | and a lie. |
| 1:16.3 | It's as amazing as it sounds. |
| 1:18.3 | And after that, we'll check in with each other and share what's on our minds this week, too. |
| 1:21.8 | So let's get going. |
| 1:22.6 | We're going to take a quick break and meet you back here for our question. |
| 1:30.5 | Parents, maybe you can relate. Your kid wants a phone, but you're concerned about what |
| 1:34.7 | they can get unfiltered access to. Tech can be so convenient, especially when it helps |
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