This episode may contain explicit language.

Welcome to Care and Feeding, the show that's as messy and honest as parenting itself.

I'm Zach Rosen. I make another show. It's called The Best Advice Show. I am dad to Noah, who's eight, and Ami, who's five.

Today! We live in Detroit.

Happy birthday, Ami. Thank you.

I'm Elizabeth New Camp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog,, Dutch Dutch goose. I'm the mom to Henry, who's 13, Oliver, who's 11, and Teddy who's 8. We are currently in Atlanta, Georgia. Hey, I'm Lucy Lopez. I also host another podcast, The Mamasita Rica. I'm Mother to Amelia, who's 15, Averyvery who's 12, and we live in Miami.

This week, we've got a listener letter from a grandmother in New York who's navigating

the playground toy wars with her three-year-old grandson.

He loves bringing his trucks and little toys, but no surprise here, he's not always

into sharing them with the other kids.

And we'll get into that in just a bit, but first we'll check in, and I've got a teenage,

Italian-American romance brewing that only Shonda Rhymes would appreciate.

I can't wait. Stick around.

Welcome back. It's time to check in with each other. Elizabeth, what's up where you are?

I want to spend this time giving a big thank you to my parents who are not only putting us up and we have completely wreaked havoc on their lives.

Like, first of all, they had two girls and we are five years apart from each other.

So I feel like they never really had us in the same phase at the same time. And I have brought three brambunctious, feral, homeschooled children into their home. We arrived with jet lag,

full of emotions, completely off schedule. This is not always the environment in which my

parents thrive. They have just been so lovely. And yes, I want to say they've done some big things.

Like Lucy and Zach, I was just telling you, like my dad has the kids at the Georgia Aquarium right now.

They've been planning outings for while we record so that

they're not in the house. Last week he took them to the park, like just great. And that has been wonderful. Did he plan that? Like was it like his idea to go to these places or? Yeah, they understood that getting them out of the house was good. So last week he was like, I'm going to take him to this park where there's like a little bit of a walk.

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