Care & Feeding | The Birthday Party Show

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4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

On this episode: Zak, Elizabeth and Jamilah answer a question about how to throw a birthday party for older kids. This member of the Slate Parenting Facebook community knows how to throw a good party for little kids… but teens are a whole different thing. So, we’ll offer up some suggestions for how to celebrate a quiet, nerdy 15-year-old. And after that, we’ll talk about some other frequently-asked birthday questions — and share what we think makes for a good birthday party for kids and parents alike. 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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0:00.0	This episode may contain explicit language.
0:06.0	Welcome to Karen Feeding, the show where we parent together.
0:09.9	I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, contributor to Slate's Karen Feeding parenting column, and mom to Naima, and we live in Los Angeles.
0:18.7	I'm Zach Rosen. I make another podcast. It's called The Best Advice Show.
0:22.6	And I am Dad to Noah, who's seven, and Ami, who's four.
0:25.6	We live in Amsterdam.
0:27.6	I'm Elizabeth Newkamp.
0:28.6	I write the family travel blog, Dutch Dutch Goose.
0:31.6	I'm the mom to Henry who's 13, Oliver who's 10, and Teddy who's 8.
0:34.6	We live in Tokyo, Japan. Today we're answering a question
0:39.1	about how to throw a birthday party for older kids. This member of the Slate Parenting Facebook
0:44.5	community knows how to throw a good party for little kids, but teens are a whole different thing.
0:51.1	So we'll offer up some suggestions for how to celebrate a quiet, nerdy 15-year-old.
0:56.7	And after that, we'll talk about some other frequently asked birthday questions and share what
1:02.0	we think makes for a good birthday party. So let's get going. We're going to take a quick
1:07.1	break, but we'll see you back here in a minute for our question.
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