Care & Feeding | Everything You Need to Know About Homeschooling

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🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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On this episode: Lucy Lopez, Elizabeth Newcamp, and Zak Rosen dig into homeschooling kids. They bring on special guest Julie Bogart from Brave Writer to dig into the history and current day trends of homeschooling, who should homeschool and who shouldn't, why people choose to homeschool, and so much more! 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 production by Cheyna Roth. Video production by Micah Phillips. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode may contain explicit language.
0:06.4	Welcome to Karen Feeding, the show that's as honest and as messy as parenting itself.
0:12.5	I'm Lucy Lopez.
0:14.0	I also host another podcast, The Mamasita Rica.
0:16.5	I'm mother to Amelia who's 15, Avery, who's 12, and we live in disgustingly hot Miami, Florida.
0:22.6	It still's hot?
0:23.5	Disgusting.
0:24.9	It might be 50 degrees this weekend, but I don't believe it. Lies and fairy tales.
0:33.6	I'm Elizabeth New Camp.
0:34.6	I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch, Dutch goose.
0:37.1	I'm the mom to Henry, who's 13, Oliver who's 11, and Teddy who's 9. And I'm in Atlanta, Georgia. I'm Zach Rosen. I make another podcast. It's called Weirdly Helpful. And I'm Dad to Noah, who's 8, and Ami, who's 5. We live in Detroit. This week we're going to go home. And not just for the holidays.
0:55.4	Like, well, not just yet.
0:56.8	More for homeschooling.
0:58.8	We've been getting a ton of questions about homeschooling lately.
1:02.0	And after that, New York Times piece about parents saying goodbye to public school,
1:06.8	we knew exactly what needed to be delivered.
1:09.7	The great homeschooling episode.
1:14.2	We're going to talk about teaching, textbooks,
1:18.1	how Elizabeth makes her kids call her principal new camp.
1:21.4	All those good things are coming up in this episode.
1:25.5	Yeah, Elizabeth, you all know this, is our homeschooling parent, our expert. Is this, what is this like for you, Elizabeth? Christmas. Yeah, I mean, like church and state meeting? What's the, what's happening? It's like the Super Bowl right now. Welcome to my office. This is like the Super Bowl, yes. I mean, I love talking about homeschool. I also get so passionate about it that people assume that I think everyone should do it or that it's kind of the
1:49.4	only path forward, which is not true. Public education is so important and most families rely on it.
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