Care & Feeding | Becoming a Parent Is a Process

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🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

On this episode: Slate’s own Aymann Ismail is with us to talk about his new book, Becoming Baba – which is out TOMORROW! We’ll talk about the book. But first, Aymann, Jamilah, Zak and Elizabeth take a question from a listener who’s hoping to reclaim the time that she feels like she lost during the newborn phase. And on Slate Plus: Elizabeth has a dilemma, and Aymann sticks around to help. If you’re not part of the Slate Plus community, we hope you’ll consider joining! Keep reading to learn how. Join us on Facebook and email us at [email protected] to ask us new questions, tell us what you thought of today’s show, and give us ideas about what we should talk about in future episodes. You can also call our phone line: (646) 357-9318. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get to hang out with us on the Plus Playground every week for a whole additional grab-bag of content — and you’ll get an ad-free experience across the network. And you’ll also be supporting the work we do here on Care and Feeding. Sign up now at slate.com/careplus – or try it out on Apple Podcasts. Podcast produced, for the final time, by Maura Currie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Enough from the Tragl.
0:02.0	Spiele Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 and 4 and grinds as it was 2002.
0:08.0	A legendary remake of original games with 9 parks, crasser tricks, platform-overgreifed multiplayer
0:14.0	and ab-gaffirned new game modi.
0:17.0	Holt you the new Tony Hawks Pro Skater 3 and 4 and
0:20.0	and the world, the Schweddivet Stip Nye.
0:23.1	Now, now,
0:23.8	on Tony Hawk the game.com,
0:25.9	Shrekstray, Play Now.
0:27.5	Avfugable up the 11th, July.
0:29.8	This episode contains explicit language.
0:36.1	Welcome to Karen Feeding,
0:39.5	the show where we raise the next generation together.
0:48.3	I'm Zach Rosen. I make another podcast. It's called The Best Advice Show. And I am dad to Noah, who's seven, and Ami, who's four. We live in Amsterdam.
0:54.2	I'm Elizabeth New Camp. I write the family travel blog, Dutch Dutch Goose. I'm the mom to Henry, who's 13, Oliver who's 11, and Teddy who's 8.
0:57.3	We live in Tokyo, Japan.
0:59.2	I'm in Jameel Olimue.
1:00.6	I'm a writer, contributor to Slate's care feeding parents in column, and mom to Naima, who's 12,
1:06.6	and we live in Los Angeles.
1:08.8	Hi again, my name is Aima and Ismail. I live in New Jersey where I grew up.
1:13.9	And I just wrote a book called Becoming Baba and it's all about transforming into a parent,
1:18.7	which I'm really excited about. And I'm a parent to two kids. One just had the four-year
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