Care & Feeding | How Busy Is Too Busy?

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🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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On this episode: Elizabeth, Zak, and Jamilah respond to a listener's question about how families handle the growing demands on kids’ time—and how working parents try to protect space for rest, school, and family connection. Then, they’ll circle up for a round of check-ins, sharing wins, struggles, and the everyday chaos of balancing life. 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 questions, share feedback, and suggest future topics. 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 an extra weekly grab-bag of content on the Plus Playground, an ad-free experience across the network, and support the work we do here on Care and Feeding. Sign up now at slate.com/careplus — or try it out on Apple Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.7	This episode contains explicit language. Welcome to Karen Feeding, the show where we raise
0:36.3	the next generation together.
0:38.2	I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, contributor to Slate's Karen Feeding parenting column, and mom to Naima, who's 11.
0:45.3	Excuse me, she's 12, and we live in Los Angeles.
0:48.6	I'm Elizabeth Newkamp.
0:50.1	I write the homeschool and family travel blog Dutch Dutch Goose.
0:52.9	I'm the mom to Henry who's 13, Oliver
0:55.0	who's 11, and Teddy who's 8. We live in Tokyo, Japan. I'm Zach Rosen. I make another podcast. It's called
1:00.8	The Best Advice Show. And I'm Dad to Noah, who's 7 and Ami, who's 4. We live in Amsterdam.
1:06.2	Today on the show, how to strike the right balance with after-school activities and decide how much is too much
1:12.9	and just what makes an extracurricular activity too extra for your family but first we'll check in
1:20.0	with each other and share what's on our minds this week so let's get going but first we're going to
1:24.5	take a quick break and meet you back here to catch up.
1:41.2	Hey, it's Mary Harris, host of Slate's Daily News Podcast, What Next?
1:45.8	This week on the show, we are talking with Ocito-Wanavu about democracy.
1:51.7	Does the idea of a government run by the people still resonate in the United States?
1:56.3	We're in a place where, I think most Democrats, most people consider themselves progressive,
2:00.6	take it for granted that democracy is a good thing, that it's worth preserving, it's worth keeping,
2:01.6	it's worth improving.
2:08.4	We're no longer in a place where you can assume that of the American public, broadly speaking, and certainly not of the right.
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