Care & Feeding | My Toddler’s Officially Overweight

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🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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On this episode: Zak, Elizabeth and Jamilah help a listener who just got told that her toddler is overweight. Now, she’s wishing the pediatrician hadn’t said anything — and she’s also feeling like she failed as a parent. So, we’re here to explain how she didn’t fail… and talk about what healthy bodies can look like. And then, we’ll circle up for a round of checkins… and on Slate Plus, we muse on whether it’s just a phase. If you’re not part of the Slate Plus community, we hope you’ll consider joining! Keep reading to learn how. Zak’s check-in: un-unibrow? Elizabeth’s check-in: date with Oliver <3 Jamilah’s check-in: age brackets 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 by Maura Currie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.5	This episode contains explicit language.
1:09.5	Welcome to Karen Feeding, the show where we raise the next generation together.
1:13.1	I'm Zach Rosen. I make another podcast. It's called The Best Advice Show.
1:17.7	And I'm Dad to Noah, who's seven, and Ami, who's four. We live in Amsterdam.
1:24.2	I'm Jamila Lemieux. I'm a writer, contributor to Slate's Karen Feeding parenting column,
1:27.6	and Mom to Naima, who's 12, and we live in Los Angeles.
1:32.4	I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. 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. We live in Tokyo, Japan. Today on the show,
1:39.5	we're taking a question from a listener who just got told that her toddler is overweight. Now she's wishing the
1:45.2	pediatrician hadn't said anything, and she's also feeling like she failed as a parent. So we're
1:49.7	here to explain how she did not fail and talk about what healthy babies can look like. Then
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