Care & Feeding | Making Space for Messy Feelings

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🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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On this episode: Zak shares a surprising lesson from his kid about being the family comedian. Elizabeth reflects on traveling in places that clearly weren’t built with kids in mind. And Lucy’s become a pickleball obsessive—thanks to a wholesome family showdown. Then: A listener's question about toxic positivity opens up a conversation on how to create space for kids to feel what they feel, without trying to fix or reframe everything. And on Slate Plus, we’re sharing our favorite books and movies for talking to kids about their emotions. 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

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0:00.0	This episode contains explicit language.
0:05.0	Welcome to Karen Feeding, the show where we raise the next generation together.
0:09.3	I'm Lucy Lopez. I host another podcast, The Mamasita Rica. I'm Mother to Amelia who's 15 and Avery who's 12. We live in Miami.
0:18.5	I'm Elizabeth New Camp. I write the family travel blog, Dutch Dutch goose.
0:21.7	I'm the mom to Henry who's 13, Oliver, who's 11, and Teddy, who's 8. We live in Tokyo, Japan, but I'm currently traveling with the kids, and I'm in Llan Batar, Mongolia. So cool. I'm Zach Rosen. I make another podcast. This is called The Best Advice Show, and I am dead to a seven-year-old Noah and four-year-old Ami.
0:21.2	You live in Amsterdam for about another... I'm Zach Rosen. I make another podcast. It's called The Best Advice Show, and I am to add to a 7-year-old Noah and 4-year-old Ami.
0:40.1	We live in Amsterdam for about another month.
0:43.0	Today on the show, is there such a thing as teaching too much positivity?
0:48.5	Our listener wants to know if too much positivity teaches that some feelings are better than others. But first, we'll check
0:56.5	in with each other and share what's on our minds this week. So let's get going. We're going to take a
1:01.9	quick break and meet you right back here to catch up. Hi, it's Willa Paskin, the host of Decodering,
1:10.2	a show about cracking cultural mysteries.
1:12.6	And we have a new episode all about a tremendously popular kind of noise, white noise.
1:19.3	I do not like silence. My wife is always like, can we just enjoy some like 30 seconds of silence in the car?
1:25.0	I'm like, no, noise, always something.
1:27.0	People are using white noise and ocean waves and crickets chirping and frying bacon
1:31.9	to quiet the sounds of the world around them.
1:35.2	And all these options made us curious.
1:39.3	Why are there so many of them?
1:41.0	White noise podcasts are reportedly costing Spotify millions of dollars each year.
1:46.7	Who's making them?
1:48.4	I wanted to provide beautiful noises because noise can be beautiful.
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