Care & Feeding | “It’s Not Easy!” Parenting After a Bad Fight.

Slate Culture

Slate Podcasts

Arts, Tv & Film, Music

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

On this episode: Lucy Lopez, Elizabeth Newcamp, and Zak Rosen have a triple…fail. Lucy clapped back to her teen, Elizabeth said the thing to her kids she promised she never would, and Zak is now dealing with injuries from a bike accident. Then, they get a listener triumph with a game-ified way of doing chores and earning allowance. The ‘Rents dig into what they do in their homes for chores and debate whether Lucy should let her kid hire someone to clean her room. 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This episode may contain explicit language.
0:06.9	Welcome to Karen Feeding.
0:08.4	We're here to talk about the ups and downs and everything in between when it comes to parenting.
0:13.0	I'm Zach Rosen.
0:14.1	I make another podcast.
0:15.5	It's called The Best Advice Show.
0:17.2	And I am Dad to Noah, who's eight and Ami who's five.
0:20.3	We live in Detroit. I'm Lucy Lopez. I host another podcast, The Mamasita Rica. I'm mother to Amelia, who's 15, Avery, who's 12, and we live in Miami, Florida. 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 Oliver who's 11, and Teddy who's 9. And we are in
0:39.5	Atlanta, Georgia. Every week, we answer your questions. We share our own parenting triumphs and
0:44.7	fails and try to make this feel like the kind of conversations you would have with your
0:50.2	parent friends while out having a cup of coffee. Or a cocktail.
0:54.8	Yeah.
0:55.5	And today we've got a question from a parent all about allowances and giving kids chores,
1:00.9	what ages are good to start, how much is too much money for a kid.
1:04.6	We'll talk through some ideas and invite you to share what worked in your family.
1:08.2	But first, we share our triumphs and fails.
1:11.2	Lucy, do you have a triumph for fail this week?
1:13.9	I have a fail because eyes were rolled and threats were made.
1:19.1	Oh, oh, okay.
1:20.6	Well, I'm excited to hear this, a little afraid to hear this.
1:24.1	Stick around, and we'll be right back. Welcome back. It's time for triumphs and fails.
1:36.9	Lucy, I am excited, I think. Yeah, you should be. You should be. Okay. What are you got?
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Slate Podcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Slate Podcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.